Animation

All animation is either hand drawn frame by frame or 2D using After Effects. Please see individual videos for specific project descriptions.

Drawings

Graphite drawings on paper using linear and tonal techniques. I use this process to help me think about subjects of paintings, and the formal concerns of design.

proclivity marks

Series beginning to explore the spontaneous mark and planned mark existing in the same environment. Staining, rubbing, painting, squeegeeing, and pouring paint provide me with a wide variety of investigational tools. Paying close attention to the history of paint and the implications of the marks I create play a vital roll in my creative process. Color serves as a manner of narrative in my work, allowing me to make a personal connection between the piece and individuals and experiences. I am currently fighting to find the place of the narrative in contemporary painting and in my own work.

Painting

While these could all be "read" as paintings, they are not all made with paint - or just paint, as the case may be. Some are digital prints mounted, manipulated and layered with other materials. Others are acrylic paint with a completely obscured digital print under-painting. They are all based on appropriated images with personal meanings and memories.

Drawing

These are digitally-influenced drawings based on appropriated images from film, album art and other entertainment/pop sources. The process is: digitally-editing and manipulating the source image, printing it on metallic paper and rendering the white space by hand with dip pen. In this way, I suppose, I'm the last set of filters rendering the image. If my hand is shaky that day... there's a glitch.

Japanese Print Series I

The Japanese Print Series is based on Japanese wood cuts and uses bright colors and line work to set an old work in a new context of bizaarre images. These works also repesent our time where there is so much chaos, friction, and over-stimulation.

abstractions

Many of these pieces were made simply for the sensual pleasure of working with soft charcoal, thick paint and vibrant color, and a fascination with line, which I approached as if I were following it, as it moved across a page. Many of the pieces in this project, even those not obviously linear, express that fascination. Three of them were part of a larger project, which can be seen here in my projects “moving pictures” and “installations”.

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