Statement

My work is a reflection on contemporary social complexities and their often-inherent instabilities, such as mass consumption, manipulated and exhausted environments, and cultural appropriation and deterioration.

I create collaged works with paint and ink, scanned drawings, appropriated digital imagery, and patterns from décor and textiles. These images range from junked cars, bomber jets, falling people, and wildlife to ambiguous motifs, and flowers reminiscent of the 1960’s Pop movement. With colors bold and plastic by intent, the final composition is an intricate symphony of contemporary clutter, paradoxically celebrating the vaguely grim effects of a frayed society.

Compositions generally pass through the printer more than once and are reworked by hand creating a mixed media painting.

Deceivingly decorative, on closer inspection my work yields an absurd coherence that teeters on chaos--a refined representation of contemporary society in struggle.