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I compose paintings from my collective memories, sometimes consciously often sub-consciously. Taking inspiration from found vintage photos, comic books, coloring books, wrapping paper, vintage cookbooks and along with a pang of sentiment, the compositions start to take form through a process of decoding and stripping away images from its original context leaving fleeting moments and frozen instances that projects an incomplete narrative or scenario.
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Artist Style: Visual Art: Contemporary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Landscape/Cityscape, Narrative/Historical, Pop, Representational, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Gold Leaf; Oil; soft and oil pastels
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
"Painting is a protest against forgetting." Hans Ulrich Obrist
At one time I would have stated that my art work consisted of two parallel avenues.
The Atomic Mid-Century series explores everything from Levittown to the Great Kitchen Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev, utopian design and modern architecture to the undelivered promises of post war America.
My Pop Surreal work is animated by vintage photos, coloring books, comics, childhood games, often peppered with self-deprecation
These two channels have birthed a new unnerving investigation I call "Dexterity." This dichotomous series questions conscious memory vs. forgettery; mobile and immobility; vintage and ageless.
Incorporating the vernacular imagery from my Atomic and pop series, I am starting to push old-fangled imagery to suggest the passing of time and the fragility of memory. I question which memories are safe inside us and how long can we hold on to them.
