I am a painter. I make paintings in my studio.
My paintings depict constructed spaces, places that are invented but are spatially convincing through the way I use perspective and render light. I populate my spaces with objects, letters and signs that are pulled from observation, imagination or found imagery. I use a variety of disparate painting materials, tools and methods of visual description on a single painting surface -- from impasto oil paint to acrylic airbrush. All of these combinations create a view of a fragmented world that reflects perception as a pieced-together construct.
Naturalistic rendering and gestural abstraction exist side by side on the same painting surface. The viewer becomes acutely aware that my paintings exist as both object and image. As soon as the viewer is pulled into the pictorial space by
