“The fragmented compositions of the paintings are direct metaphors of our twenty-first century’s hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media”

Taking inspiration from art history, mythology, music and science fiction, my paintings create psychological spaces through a complex and personal formal language that is situated between figuration and abstraction. Incremental and anxious marks create optical confusion through figure/ground shifts and interlocking forms. Cats, mushrooms, Batmans, snakes and crystalline geometries emerge from the density of the picture plane. These characters intertwine with text and dates to explore the anxiety surrounding the creative act and the passing of time. 

"Eyes and Teeth" alludes to the title of a song by the band High on Fire. Similar to the song, each one of my paintings are a “wall of sound” or in other words, specific in tone and maximalist in visual pleasure. Eyes and teeth are an entry point for the group of paintings. In some of the paintings, triangular shapes may represent eyes or teeth that hint at bodies of snakes or cats; while in other paintings, the triangles may function as industrial and mechanical imagery (eye bolt, teeth of a saw blade).

The fragmented compositions of the paintings are direct metaphors of our twenty-first century’s hyper-stimulated daily life of interconnecting media. My goal is to create paintings that simultaneously have material presence and believable pictorial space full of a certain humor, exuberance and simplification of form.