Fueled by internal struggle, my work skims intimate personal experiences from both my conscious and un-conscious reality. Focusing on the decision making process which lead me from addiction towards recovery, the work has developed into a form of contemporary expressionism.
Like a series of residual self-portraits, the work is often autobiographical in both nature and process. Successes and failures from past work affect current choices and inform how I proceed within my creative process. In this creative process I tend to think of how choice and chance reappear and how the issue of control and freedom relate to both my studio practice and daily life. To maximize freedom and chance when approaching the canvas I work in multiple mediums, oftentimes embracing a wide range of non-art materials.
Dark, rough, adhesive, and toxic, I frequently use materials such as tar in my process to represent a wide range of metaphors relating to a history of poor decision-making. Poignantly, tar as a physical material evokes a feeling of being both stuck and unable to maintain a clean existence; and, with its powerful permanence, tar poetically evokes the never-ending struggle we face in our choices. With these physical attributes in mind, tar's greatest trait is found in its ability to form unified visual spaces through wildly varying perspectives; specifically in the way light reacts to the tar's texture. Through this texture, paintings fluctuate as your physical relationship to them changes, allowing for compositions to emerge as the audiences find their own point of view.

About the artist:

Fueled by internal struggle, my work skims intimate personal experiences from both my conscious and un-conscious reality. Focusing on the decision making process which lead me from addiction towards recovery, the work has developed into a form of contemporary expressionism.
Like a series of residual self-portraits, the work is often autobiographical in both nature and process. Successes and failures from past work affect current choices and inform how I proceed within my creative process. In this creative process I tend to think of how choice and chance reappear and how the issue of control and freedom relate to both my studio practice and daily life. To maximize freedom and chance when approaching the canvas I work in multiple mediums, oftentimes embracing a wide range of non-art materials.
Dark, rough, adhesive, and toxic, I frequently use materials such as tar in my process to represent a wide range of metaphors relating to a history of poor decision-making. Poignantly, tar as a physical material evokes a feeling of being both stuck and unable to maintain a clean existence; and, with its powerful permanence, tar poetically evokes the never-ending struggle we face in our choices. With these physical attributes in mind, tar's greatest trait is found in its ability to form unified visual spaces through wildly varying perspectives; specifically in the way light reacts to the tar's texture. Through this texture, paintings fluctuate as your physical relationship to them changes, allowing for compositions to emerge as the audiences find their own point of view.