Artist Statement:

I think of myself as a casualty of our consumer culture, inspired by the mad, beautiful junk that we have filled the world with.  A box of jellybeans, old school Vegas neon, and 1980’s swatch watches become rich source material.  I am obsessed with the shiny wild color, the tawdriness and transience, the fetishistic nature of our disposable society. I try to transfer that desire to my paintings.  I want my work to seduce the viewer into a formal dialogue.

Ultimately, these paintings are studies of material and process.
My process itself, like the objects that inspire me, is both fetishistic and obsessive.After stretching canvas over panel, these paintings are worked on horizontally. I mask out the area I am painting, and then layers of translucent glaze are applied and spread with a sponge brush until any trace of my hand is no longer apparent.  The surfaces of these paintings begin to approach a high-gloss, machine-made quality, but on close inspection are clearly handcrafted and flawed. This tragic tension becomes primary to my process.  I use a fast drying medium and mix either dry pigment or a tube color mixture into a very transparent glaze.  I then apply as many layers as is necessary to achieve the density of color and surface that I desire.