Member Since December 29th, 2009
Animations of impasto and sweeping brush stokes
My works are animations of impasto and sweeping brush stokes deep with impact, creating a surface of tension, a paradox of visual emotions and concerns. They create forms that facilitate depth and uncanny synthesis within the compositions. Strong forms, bending edges, and expressive discordant surfaces; narratives captivating, scintillating, and conjuring heightened emotions.
My works gaze into life’s contradictions, its realties, its bare emotions, whether portrayals of contemporary iconography, urban terrain or figurative, where depth and time congeal into space exposing transformation and recreation.
The paint is naive, thick, and viscous it adheres, coagulates, and congeals across the igneous blank canvas. In its wake compositions emerge; forms move and dominate space rich in color; texture develops into environments real or fabricated; into animations of synergy.
The overture is sometimes foreboding; its source and message driven by manipulation, characters mirrored, masked, and disguised as manmade objects; portraits and emotional issues exploited.
My paintings communicate the elements of tension and resolve; thickly exaggerated, agitated gestures that expose the materials and surface of the paint. I draw my inspiration from the external environment and my internal awareness. The style depicts sharp circumstances and consequences, as tensions between attraction and repulsion confronts the observer, the dialogue results in a visual copulation, where fabrication amplifies the visual consciousness.
BFA in Painting & Print-making and Graphic Design Certificate from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Studied Graphic Design at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and Art Institute of Boston, MA
Work has appeared in the artist shows at Boston Copley Society, Boston, MA and SAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Private Collections throughout the United States