About The Artist

My art is not an exploration of new materials or techniques, or an elaboration of an existing style, like a word that needs another word for meaning. Meaning is elusive, especially with opposites that collide and continuously repel each other. This interaction can lead to balance or imbalance, harmony or conflict. It portrays a primal difference between nature and subject, disclosure and hiddenness, absence and presence. My paintings express a present absence, a still life of trash from a wedding taking on a life of its own but destined to suffer the same fate, only to be saved by the presence of an artist, not in evidentiary photos, but in plant oils on cotton canvas, a tangible difference that doubts reality, much like our own consciousness. The clear becomes obscure and the obscure clear. This doubt is given to the viewer, the freedom to roam the picture, to reach out and touch the physical surface. The style is intentionally traditional to contrast with modern media that exploit and deceive the privacy and immanence of human consciousness, and contemporary artists who are slaves to digital imagery.