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STATEMENT OF WORK
Statement:
The paintings represented here are examples of work completed for the most part in the last 2 years -from 2020 to 2023. I feel strongly that an artist's work should speak for itself without external explanations but I will say the following at the risk of sounding pretentious which is not my intent!
I want to involve the viewer in the process of making meaning in much the same way as Rorschach images do. Although the history of art, (painting in particular,) and culture play a significant role in my studio practice, the meaning of each work is completed by the viewer, in the same way that all unique experiences are understood and internalized without a guide or guide book. As Duchamp proved, "Context" reins supreme.
Further more, the complexity of how we understand reality, is informed by the “internal” (knowledge) and the “external” (perception), the visual and the invisible, exist all at once in painting, as they do in life. Ultimately we all live in our own reality where the facilities of our senses are modified by the forces of knowledge and beliefs. How these separate states exist together, and relate to one another to create an original visual and painterly object is the primary passion behind all my work. My exploration, in the end, is to juxtapose these “internal” and “external” states, exploring the object and the IDEA of the object simultaneously to perhaps a painterly and poetic end.