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.
Raven (2011), oil & gold leaf on canvas, 35 x 55 inches
Golden Stag (2012), oil & gold leaf on canvas, 35 x 59 inches
Dreaming of Flying (2012), oil & gold leaf on canvas, 39 x 58 inches
Five Bucks (2009), oil on canvas, 28 x 38 inches
The Beach (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Nest (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
Subway (2008), oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Fallen Angel (2009), oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Angel (2010), oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Bird and Bees (2009), oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches
Kiss (2009), oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Berlin, Alexanderplatz (2011), oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Berlin, Boxhagenerplatz (2011), oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Berlin, Gorlitzer Park (2011), oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Berlin, May Day (2011), oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches