About me.
Artist Statement
In my work I explore the many contrasts that I see in the world around me as well as within me. I was made aware of the complicated nature of humanity at an early age when my father, a recent art school grad, was shipped off to war. WWII plagued him with PTSD and the art world lost a potentially bright star. In that loss, though, I gained my purpose as an artist.
In my own work, rather than painting overt references to the traumas of a confusing world, I instead seek to explore subtle paradoxes in the world around me. I paint still lifes with a disquieting, unnerving sense of order; bustling cityscapes with a stoic silence; and banal domestic scenes with such an unflinching attention to detail that the very nature of why it has been elevated to be a painting is called into question. In my art there is always a calm, almost a reserved aloofness. It is my truth, my view of the world as it is with all its beauty, potential, and reality.