My art is an exploration of the beautiful mundane—asphalt, weeds, and suburban banality. I create the sensation of déjà vu for a place one has or never has been. My nocturnal paintings often feature a source light and shadows that allow the observer of the painting to discover the presence of the original artist. In doing so, I recreate the perception of presence amidst the silent vastness of nighttime, and the feeling of falling in love with the beauty of the middling.
The Bacchanalia series takes advantage of the imperfections of the camera lens to create apparitions and digital artifacts. Again, the paintings’ observers take on the viewpoint of the artist. However, instead of feeling like an active participant in the scene, the viewer is an outsider witnessing a fanciful tableau in which figures distort and duplicate like unreliable memory.
