Artist Statement
My art is big on color and concept. I’m interested in painting the world around me and also in how the constant presence of media images affects us. Thus, my work includes painting vivid images from life from photographs I have taken from life. My work also includes isolating moments on television from the accompanying narrative and painting those moments in a way that shows what remains when the narrative is removed. My process in this respect involves photographing the television images, manipulating the images to alter color and contrast, and then painting from the printed result. Having grown up with television all around me, I find that I am frequently seduced by these screen images—which is one reason I paint them. But even though the seductive “glow” of the images at least in part remains in my paintings, it becomes apparent that the objects shown have been pulled back to a more simplistic state that is disconnected from their original meaning. The ubiquity and dominance of these images and how we experience and process them is at the heart of our culture as I see it and is one of my interests as a painter.
Biography
Education
Graduate Master Artist Program, The Compass Atelier, Rockville, Maryland, 2018
M.A., American Cultural History, University of Maryland, College Park
Shows
Artomatic, Rockville, Maryland, 2016
Thesis Exhibition, Compass Atelier 2, Rockville, Maryland, 2018
Behind the Veil: Mythology, Fantasy, and the Human Spirit, The Stone Branch School of Art, Rockville, Maryland, May-June 2018
Lavender Fields Forever, Artists & Makers Studios 2, Rockville, Maryland, September 2018
Escape from Between the Lines, Park View Gallery at Glen Echo, Maryland, July 2018