My work symphonizes past, present and future - extracting images from art history and thrusting them forward into a contemporary light. Depending on the work, I incorporate different materials into my paintings to add a unique dynamic and take a step beyond the traditional conventions of representational art.

 

My paintings are conceptual, yet, there is an archaic methodology to the process. I hunt and gather materials and contextual imagery from the internet, and then return them to the physical world as palimpsests anew on canvas, captured, composed and contained within the paint. I encourage malfunctions to occur and glorify them as evidence of the transformation the image undergoes as it passes through the analogue-to-digital interface.

 

Deeply rooted in the material traditions of painting, I strive to use both organic and digital media to create exciting contemporary images that take you on a journey through space and time. My paintings are alchemical experiments with a retrospective, introspective and prospective outlook on what could be from has been and these perspectives allow me to use the past to share an optimism for the future.