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Artist Statement:
My painting is based on the
figure and it's relationship
to inanimate objects in
obscure locales. Mysterious,
symbolic, and intimate, the
dramas unfold in a place where
time and space are compressed.
I paint for the mind's eye.
Logic and common sense only
interfere. My work lives in a
visionary world, where
symbolism and dislocation
breathe. Where gravitational
laws are often abandoned and
the images capture moments
when the mind is disoriented.
The figures drift among
fractured thoughts,
architectural motifs and
isolated everyday items.
Subjects cross-reference each
other. People often appear to
be entirely encased in their
own thoughts. They are
sometimes repeated within the
same painting, lost in
thought. The paintings inspire
thought on the minutiae of
daily living. Rather than
simple colorful pictures;
instead my work are
mindscapes; where imagination
is the key for the
visual/emotional experience.
In my dream world, ideas
blossom and time momentary
stands still.
I work from live models,
charcoal drawings and a very
active imagination. As a
painting progresses, I begin a
narrative inspired by the
various subjects at hand.
Images, thoughts and
environments accumulate. These
are not premeditated works.
There is an ongoing
transformation of form, of
subject ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2000 Selected Artists, Cork
Gallery, Lincoln Center, New
York City.
1999 New Painting, The Art
Students League Gallery, New
York City. Curated by Frank
O’Cain.
1998 Figurative Paintings, The
Art Students League Gallery,
New York City. Curated by Fred
Mitchell.
1994 Trees and…, Tompkins
Square Library Art Gallery,
New ...
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