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Poured, puddled, splattered and sometimes very pink, these paintings fling messy materiality at various sacred conventions while exploring optical and sociological perceptions of color, pattern and style. In addition, they pose a leveling of numerous value systems: the purity of the Modernist cube versus the decorative nature of pattern and color; the realist rendering of a unique image versus the populist nature of a spray stencil pattern; the straightforward materiality of paint versus the convoluted encounter with representation.
Common imagery (house interiors, nature) is borrowed from magazines and newspapers and recycled into the paintings with the intention of creating a vaguely familiar space. I limit my palette to a few images, a few colors and a few patterns that are mixed and remixed with minor shifts in scale, color and context. The paintings are constructed using discreet layers, as one would build a sculpture. Each layer is in some way opposed to the one beneath it; outdoors over indoors, pattern over fluidity, turquoise over magenta. These paintings aim to create multiple kinds of collisions that magnify the act of seeing and challenge notions of authenticity of perception.
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