My work is focused on our man-made world.
Stairways, telephone poles, railroad tracks, apartment buildings and factories are all
prominent in my work. These are places and things that have been seen or used by thousands of people, each one of them an individual with unique
experiences. These experiences, varied as they may be, share the same space. Therefore a street corner may be where one person met the love of their life,
and also where someone lost theirs. A room in an apartment may be both where a child was conceived and where a young man died. These events are
inseparable from the space, to the individual that experienced them.
I represent these spaces with four basic elements in my paintings: photographs, paint, found objects and the canvas. The so-called canvas is actually very seldom real canvas. I mostly use Baltic birch panels, though I have experimented with sheet metal, glass, and most recently steel reinforcement concrete panels of my own construction. To this base I attach photographs. The photographs are of a specific place, and were taken at a specific time. They are documentation of an instant in an every-changing world. They show a real place. The found objects are from that place. Attached to the base they break the plane of the painting and become a link between the painting and the viewer. These objects may be wire, matchsticks, washers, bolts, or anything else I find while taking the pictures. The paint is memory projected. By filling in between the photographs it transforms the space from a common area, to one experienced by an individual. The painting as a sum of all parts becomes both literal and symbolic.
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