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RECENT WORK
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Plastic Iconoclastic
I am once again breaking the icons. In this new series, I am creating an extension of the work of James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Richard Hamilton and a surgical deconstruction of it and the pop art movement at large. I think of these as assemblage work at the cultural level — assembling shattered shards of societal and artistic iconography into new vessels for meaning and optics for examination and consideration.
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The Boogie-Woogie Rumble
The Harlem Renaissance was a time of incredible cultural flowering. Poets, writers, musicians, performers, thinkers, all spurring each other on to new heights and fresh avenues of exploration on the New York City streets of the 1920s and 30s. This body of work is built around the work of one of those legendary talents, poet Langston Hughes.
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Outside
To be a jazz artist is to choose a lifestyle of expression, interpretation, and creation. To stand apart. But isn’t that what I am doing as an artist as well? Isn’t that the “art life” embodied? With “OUTSIDE,” I am probing themes of creation itself as an expression of “otherness” and creative output as a way to exceed the mundane. In all, a personal series plumbing the depths of my own experience as a creative through 9 legendary artists.
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(post) Modern Love
It would be an understatement to say that the contemporary love landscape is fragmented. Digital proxies, invented identities, sexual immediacy, the pressures of comparisons to how things “used to be” (and so much more), all make the concept of “LOVE” seem quaint. The entire picture can overwhelm and could inspire hopelessness. But throughout it all, I see HOPE. In this series of works, I explore those themes.
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Western Gothic
A massive series in two parts, exploring the American western myth and experience through two poems by female western poets Maxine Kumin and Linda McCarritson. Beauty, loss, and hope shoot through the entire body of work.
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No Roses In December
My father passed from profound Alzheimer's this spring. The journey was strange and difficult. Dementia is a plague upon our modern society, shattering lives in its wake. Those suffering have their identities and dignity torn from them, leaving a ghostlike echo of the person that was there before. In this deeply personal series, I am exploring what I observed about that process with my father and the haunting result of a mind in free fall.
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Frankenstein ::
The Residency
I was thrilled to be selected for a four-week, Collage & Illustration residency with Kolaj Institute. During the residency, the participating artists visually interpreted Mary Shelley’s 1818 proto-science fiction novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. If you know me in the least, you know this was RIGHT up my alley. The work from participating artists created during the residency will be published in an illustrated version of this historic book to bring the themes it raises to 21st century readers and selected work will be displayed live.
