Artist Statement
The intersection of multiple worlds has become part of our contemporary visual language. Mass media, internet, cell phones, signage and graffiti are all part of our everyday landscape. Everywhere we look images are layered upon images, various different worlds overlapping each other. The idea of multiple realities extends well beyond contemporary visual experience. Science, literature, religion and mythology all contain ideas of alternate worlds: afterlife, ghosts, dreams, transformation, parallel universes and higher dimensions to name but a few.
I am exploring the language of merging possibilities as both the subject and the form of my paintings. Rooted in modernist painting concepts, the struggle between illusion and surface in these paintings is akin to seeing different television channels at once. They are a glimpse of converging realities, where smeared, encrusted and splashed apparitions float over/under/through other images.
Fallen Angel (2009), oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Angel (2010), oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Raven (2011), oil & gold leaf on canvas, 35 x 55 inches
The Beach (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Subway (2008), oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Five Bucks (2009), oil on canvas, 28 x 38 inches
Nest (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Rose (2009), oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches
Red Shoes (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Faun (2010), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Forest Spirit (2012), oil and metallic paint on canvas, 35 x 58 inches
Meadow Spirit (2012), oil and metallic paint on canvas, 39 x 58 inches