About

“My paintings immerse viewers in a familiar but skewed version of reality to expose the painfully humorous decay of our social institutions. Whether focused on landscape in its purest form or colliding disparate imagery together, they always aim to be cryptic and humorous, macabre and beautiful, and jarring and seducing all at once. I'm driven by an overwhelming desire to examine motive and responsibility behind image making itself. 

            Often fraught with dualities and contradictions, my paintings seek to hold a mirror to the society that produced them, in order to expose some of the unseen decay within that society and within myself. In using the format of collage or contemporary landscape, my paintings incorporate a wide array of iconography and imagery, while adding commentary through their juxtapositions.  To better understand my own position as a white, male artist and consumer of images, I use painting as a way to examine and question my role as such.  The artworks are inevitably questions in themselves: Who is to blame?  What does it mean to be privileged?  What is my duty as an artist?”