Artist Statement
My paintings are light and strange and sometimes sweet. I love ordinary objects, drawings within paintings, and when goofiness undercuts beauty.
I try to paint subjects so plain and yet contemporary that they spark immediate recognition: fingers dusty from Cheetos, a frowny face keyed into a car, butterfly socks fluttering on a clothesline. These are just the stuff of my life– but heightened and made wonderful in the lusciousness of oil. Each painting employs all of my patience and skill, as the most ambitious take hundreds of hours. This seems to be a key part of it— for it is through the earnest work of making-beautiful that these paintings skate the edge of serious and funny, their humble subjects turning mysterious and deserving of new consideration.
