Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
To apply to the Registry, click here. Join our mailing list here to receive our open call announcement and other programming updates. For any further questions about the Registry, please contact us at registry@whitecolumns.org.
STATEMENT OF WORK
2025 Art Statement
For over a decade, I have created paintings and installations inspired by discarded photographs found in thrift stores and flea markets. My aim is not to replicate these images literally, but to convey—through my artwork—what these physical artifacts may have represented to their original owners. I'm interested in both the emotional resonance and cultural significance of photo collecting.
My current series, Epic Journey, is rooted in a vast collection of vintage travel slides discovered in a thrift store in Asbury Park.
The works in this series are experimental, merging imagery from multiple travel locations into layered compositions. Using oil on transparent acetate and plexiglass, I explore how disparate memories and experiences can blur and coalesce in the mind. The transparency of these materials echoes the photographic processes of the original source images, creating a dissolving quality that evokes visual ambiguity—referencing both memory and history.
In these paintings, I continue to explore “idyllic” travel landscapes while interrogating the legacy of Romantic landscape painting. I find myself asking: what captivates us more today—a landscape screensaver or a museum painting?