Statement:
As a visual artist, I explore connections between the past and present through paintings. I investigate these relationships through varied mediums, formats, and sizes, allowing me to delve into interrelated themes and different painting processes.
My large-scale figurative paintings explore and challenge societal norms, drawing inspiration from visual artifacts of American culture that propagate social divisions. I use imagery from sources like children's books, comics, and advertisements as commentary, fostering dialogue between the viewer and prevailing ideologies encompassing political, social, and alternate realms. The imagery re-establishes its connection to the present through a viewer's engagement and being affixed with contemporary themes.
As a painter, I paint repeated, thin layers or versions of the completed work to develop form and surface interactions of color. However, I sand those layers in my oil paintings and repeat the process until I reach the work's final form. The additive and subtractive process explores the connections between points in time, which is evident to the viewer when the works are viewed up close. As a result, the surface becomes essential, as it's where you can see the results of building layers and sanding them down, exposing hidden layers. Adding and removing layers is not just about the surface—which, in the end, is smooth yet visually tactile—it's about rediscovery, finding the painting within the painting, and combining old and new.
2024
Array 2| Booooooom Book
Contemporary Realism| Site Brooklyn Gallery
ARTSIN SQUARE Magazine | Issue 6
Divide Magazine| Issue 11
2023
Gathered VI| Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)
COSO 2023 Biennial| VAE Raleigh
Used| Attleboro Art Museum
43rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition| Monmouth Museum
Betty Foy Sanders Dept of Art (BSFDA) Faculty Show|Georgia Southern University
International Painting Annual (INPA 10)| Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center Book
The Pandemic Retrospective (MEA S17)| Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center Book
Orange Book 2| Artrepreneur Book
Aesthetica| Artist Directory
ARTSIN SQUARE| Selected Artist
2022
#2| Artsin Square
Chianciano Art Museum Prize| Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy
Chianciano Biennale| Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy
Sharp Dressed Man| Dab Art, Los Angeles
ArtFields 2022| Exhibition and Competition
Visionary Art Collective| Interview
2021
Painted Biennial| Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center
Painting 2011-2021| Site Brooklyn Gallery
What| Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center
ReNew|Sulphur Studios
ArtFields 2021| Exhibition and Competition
Betty Foy Sanders Dept of Art (BSFDA) Faculty Show|Georgia Southern University
Privilege| Averitt Center for the Arts
Privilege| Equity Gallery
FOA| Studio Image Project, Americas II
Vasistas Magazine| Feature
ArtistADay| Feature
Muck and Nettles| Feature
2020
No Dead Artists| Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
In Place| Sulphur Studios
Cell Phone| Jag Gallery
Power Clash Art|Feature
I Like Your Work|Feature
Booooooom| Feature
