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Goal To produce work that individual clients,
galleries, and museums consider important. Not just for its market value but for how
it provokes. A nontraditional sense of provocation. I want to entertain,
intrigue, enlighten and inform. I deal in reality, not the abstracted because I
think the world as is offers much inspiration. Henry James wrote, "It is art
that makes life, makes interest, makes importance." If my art can claim just
one of the three, I will consider myself a success.
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Artist Statement
An artist is an inventor of secrets. Revealing these secrets is
where I begin as collaborator and storyteller. I garner inspiration from the American
lexicon of past and present cultural imagery. Mixing the old with the new enables
society to rethink who we are as a culture. For better or worse. By not
finishing my visual sentences, I allow interpretation of my ideas both forward and
backward, or as incomplete. I believe life's lessons are never as compelling as when
we can examine them from both directions. This is why I like to mix the ambiguous
with the decorative, truth with mythology and the serious with a sense of humor.
Experimenting with materials as well as subject matter balances my working rhythm.
To me, the textural components are as important as the visual. Using weathered old
wood with clay is as intriguing as paint on canvas or pencil marks on paper. By
mixing them together successfully, I invent my secrets. |
