| Professional
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.
Artist Statement
"Keeper Series"
I don't want to reveal everything about these mixed media artifacts
of past and future, however I will tell you this. There are two
important explanations and the first one is that they are based on the
behind the scenes person that we can all count on.
She's a "Keeper"
is my code and acronym for anyone's muse. Through her I am able to
revisit older recollections of past and future that need examining and
their unintentional perceptions changed.
The second explanation
within the "Keeper" series is that moments in time can have status and
that status can be elevated. These works are my rebranding and
redefining of those private moments through visually painted rewrites,
and collaged elements.
These mixed media paintings are seductive
remnants and sculptural documents that you can not ignore and though I
deplore our Hollywood-Wall Street Caste system I do believe in
exposing our everyday voyeuristic tendency towards secrets and
storytelling.
Additionally
Speaking...
 Who are we? As an artist what role do I have to play in all
of this? These are the questions that I ask myself everyday as I read the newspaper and
scour the magazines and the internet for society's detritus from which I get inspiration. The human
condition plays itself out in my imagination, in my sketchbooks, and in my created pieces.
An earlier career in advertising has led me
towards creating paintings and sculptures, that are narratives of collected and often
figurative materials, and sometimes I'm even trying to sell you a bill of goods.
My art is really serious business with a sense of humor. I freely pull from a myriad of
sources that span the cultural spectrum, and I'm often tackling the differences between
men and women, religion, film, music, sexuality, infidelity, and American
machismo.
Occasionally I repeat elements or imagery for cadence or
reinvestigation. The graphic image of a man and a woman kissing, that I fondly refer to as
"The Royals" is another perfect example of my continuing societal commentary of
who we are. We do not have real "Royalty" in this culture, and sometimes I
wonder just who are our heroes, Kings, and Queens. Our tabloid culture sets the standards
for our comedy meets tragedy lifestyles, and this is where I find my rub. I really want
you to notice the color, the pageantry, and the beauty that is hidden sometimes beneath
the ugliness around us.
I present for you this beautiful confusion with nostalgic
wisdom, wit, desire, paint, clay, wood, and often with pithy quotes for all of us to
ponder. ---
**above work:
Poker Game, 52" x 48" x 8"
- A Wall
Sculpture; wood, polychromed clay
Pretty Ugly,
20" x 40" - Painting on wood, hadmade clay flowers, gemstones,
resin, spray paint |
