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STATEMENT OF WORK
The paintings and drawings are made by direct observation. The point of departure for each work is often an object of crass consumerism. While the constant is observation, the subjects are variable. It can be anything but it cannot be everything.
Working from the structures of a traditional still life, the paintings function as a sort of record keeper that renders a different psychological temperature each time. My approach is painterly and verges on abstraction, animating the subject matter into a lively state through high velocity, almost frenetic applications of material and color. There is a manipulation of light, shape, scale, and orientation in each work, producing distinctive projective sites, moribund yet possessing signs of life.
There are erotic possibilities in the restraints of this daily painting practice, with its resolute palette, focused subjects, and seriality. The paintings, with their qualities of touch and distance, move between intimacy and detachment. Voyeuristic pleasure is key in the act of looking.