The next big thing will be smaller : February 2015

- < 1/4 Mile Painting

Mixed Media

- out-of-time-line.

Deconstruction of Ego.

Homage to Rauschenberg

This painting is a personal illustrative empirical out-of-timeline visually processing the pleasure and pressure of the local, global and media culture on the self

Collaboration with others is part of deconstruction of lone artist ego structure. Collaborations have varied from using another artists technique outside of my own skill set to enhance a part of the painting, dedicating a panel to an artist and painting side by side with them in the studio, and a text artist who stenciled graffiti over a panel. Two panels were destroyed in a group performance piece and then rebuilt.

less than 1/4 Mile Painting Install at liminal . Mixed media . 70' x 4'

- Relational Surveillances

Acrylic on Board

I enjoy the technical challenge of combining abstract gestural techniques with realism and compositional movement. The early paintings in this series revealed themselves to be sketches with one realistic figure (usually a building) anchored or floating in a chaotic gestural background. The sketches developed into larger compositions of numerous figures, tied together with an abstract compositional formalism. The bubbles inspired by technical drawing and diagrams elude to an unseen narrative within the figure.

- The series draws on references to art history, personal experience and speculation. Subject matter of suburbia, the built environment, criminalization of youth, comfort, influence, technology and surveillance. Ongoing series since 2003.