cherish the strength of Mother’s, and am proud to love the rainbow for what it is. What about reclaiming the Gingerbread boy, in as much as a cookie is a metaphor for a disenfranchised youth? Realities are vibrant, chaotic, sublime and violent but they are never equal.
Much about my work I can’t control, using motifs and paints and drawing is how I engage my work, but doing more and thinking/ planning less has paid dividends. I perceive a certain authenticity in the immediacy of my work. Abstraction, juxtaposed with surrealistic imagery, altered states of consciousness and automatic drawing- the Street; I will drink and dance and stare you down.
It is thinkingabout reclaiming the rainbow, reclaiming the kitchen, in that I regard them inalienable gifts, though so far removed from my reality as hetero American male- that informs my practice. What is the representation of masculine vulnerability? Forms from nature, roles of domesticity, compassion; I try to connect to the values and sensations of a nurturing humanity that inspire me. Painting a stove, articulating a beautiful rainbow: I
I’m straight and I want to talk about the rainbow because it is important to me, the Mother and child are important to me, cooking for my child and learning to eat healthy are important to me, being Other is important to me, all my Gingerbread cookies are important to me, riding my bicycle is important to me, the Swastika is important to me, rabbit’s on the moon are important to me-
Using imagery like this exposes my respect for nature, life, and family, Women, healthy lifestyles choices, and under-represented individuals, the poor, practical living and green energy, urban and diverse cultures. You can pile up all the heroic marks and heroic gestures and heroic impulses you want, I’m really trying to light a
Accepting hardto-swallow truths at one point for me was a way to overcome the difficulties like a methamphetamine addiction, homelessness, suicide attempts, not having a father, loosing my mind, alcohol abuse. But now, having come so far, painting truthfully allows me to work with dignity and not feel like the Big Truth is lodged in my throat. I feel my painting serves as a reference to what I’m thinking. I hope my painting serves as the start of a conversation:
fire. I’m picking up a match, and turning up the (explicative) heat. Squirm or endulge.
Mama’s Reluctant Loverbread, digital print, 48 x 48 in, 2014.
Shit Angel, digital print, 4 x 6 in, 2014.
Untitled, Flat (3/4), mixed media on found metal, 36 x 36 in, 2015. Painting/Photography/Printmedia/ Sculpture.
Untitled, mixed media on oil cloth, 24 x 36 in, 2015. Interdisciplinary printmedia.
Chocolate Sorrow 1, digital print, 13 x 19 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 2, digital print, 13 x 19 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 3, digital print, 13 x 19 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 72 x 36 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 4, digital, variable, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 5, digital, variable, 2015
No One Puts Cookie In the Corner, digital print, 72 x 36 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 6, digital, variable, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 7, digital, variable, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 8, digital, variable, 2015
Nothing But A Cookie (Departures), digital print, 72 x 36 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 9, digital, variable, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 10, digital, variable, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 11, digital, variable, 2015
Cookie Comes Of Age, digital print, 72 x 36 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 12, digital print, 8 1/2 x 11 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 13, digital print, 8 1/2 x 11 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 14, digital print, 8 1/2 x 11 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 15, digital print, 8 1/2 x 11 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 90 x 50 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 16, digital print, 11 x 17 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 17, digital print, 11 x 17 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 20, digital print, 11 x 17 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 18, digital print, 11 x 17 in, 2015
Chocolate Sorrow 19, digital print, 11 x 17 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Blame The Family, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Blacasso’s Clusterfuck, digital print, 13 x 19 in, 2015
Brother Vermeer’s Wrong Answer, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
Untitled, digital print, 8 x 10 in, 2015
The Cookie Who Belonged To Himself, digital print, 90 x 50 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 1, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 3, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 4, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 2, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys5, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 8, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 7, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Ginger Boys 6, digital print, 16 x 24 in, 2015
Mama’s Reluctant Loverbread, digital print, 48 x 48 in, 2014
Shit Angel, digital print, 4 x 6 in, 2014
Untitled, Flat (3/4), mixed media on found metal, 36 x 36 in, 2015
Untitled, mixed media on oil cloth, 24 x 36 in, 2015
