Experience for Experience's Sake

In my work, I am concerned with the direct aesthetic experience of a piece of art. I am a modern realist painter using traditional oil techniques with bold, often disruptive, color palettes. My subject matter is the quiet drama of life, the intense coiled energy and feeling of seemingly still moments. 

In our age where social media has dropped a veil of self consciousness over our lives, I believe an intense personal engagement with art is all the more vital. With the constant presence of cameras in our pockets and social media beckoning for posts, we are too often watching our lives from the outside, sifting through our days for cropped, curated, “instagramable” moments. Distracted by our anticipation of other people’s reaction to what we are seeing and doing, we reduce our ability to personally experience the world ourselves.

I invite the viewer into the private unselfconscious moments of the images in my paintings hoping to thereby give them their own private unfiltered experience of a viewer and an art object being viewed. 

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