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Artist Statement
The impetus for many of my paintings comes from observing the relationship between the objectively known world and the emotionally charged states that go on unseen but are always present within it. I select the subject matter in my paintings to suggest this relationship, not only through the compositional arrangement of the imagery, but more importantly through the transference of object into symbol. The symbolic charge of the imagery is the catalyst that awakens the emotional state that lies beneath.
My process involves an additive and subtractive method of building and removing layers of the painted surface. Through this activity I allow what was once underneath to surface and become a part of the final image. I find that this process becomes a physical representation of what I am exploring conceptually. The idea that a physical object can be reduced to line, color, and form and become either more ambiguous or more powerful and iconographic is a continual fascination for me and something that I am constantly aware of when composing my paintings.
About Me
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over there in the Himalayas...A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell 'em I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dali Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald, striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says?... Gunga galunga... gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say: 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little somethin', you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says: 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
