My practice is based in painting and incorporates drawing, analog video and installation to varying degrees. I have no ideological allegiance to any given style or medium, I am interested in the potential of all media. That being said, painting uniquely compels me. There lies within the medium, a provisional balance between structure/boundaries and subjectivity/limitlessness. The initial abstraction/delimitation to 2 dimensions sets the stage for a series of dialectics to play out aesthetically. In the studio, I invite randomness, allowing for an interplay of varying forms of confusion to manifest itself on the surface. To counter this I limit my palette.
Often I use “Objective” information like encyclopedia illustrations, patterns, portraits, and documentary photographs of my own paintings, which do not reveal truth but rather build repressive walls leading to ambiguity and psychic regression. I see grayscale as retrograde, or as signifying regression. Representations stripped of emotion reflect the apathy and impenetrable complexity of our information culture. A wall is just as flat as a meaningless sign. Rather than facilitating understanding the wall and the empty signifier stretch out laterally, linking to others like bricks or chains. The work attempts to become "of itself" through a paradoxical process of denial, distortion, and masking.