New Work (2025)
Statement
This body of work begins with grounds composed of a collection of personal ephemera combined with materially driven abstraction. Onto this framework, I layer the visual clutter of popular culture that has seeped into our collective memory—cartoon mascots, stills from reality television and internet videos, and fragments of advertising. In these paintings and drawings, screenshots, junk mail, and remnants from advertising all appear, but never quite as expected. They’re cropped, stretched, and layered until they teeter between recognition and absurdity. This friction between polish and imperfection foregrounds the act of making, resisting the seamlessness of mass media. Humor is central: a familiar character might grin too wide, or a slogan might collapse into nonsense. These distortions aren’t just jokes—they’re strategies for slowing down images designed to move too fast.
