paintings
These paintings, most 6 x 4 feet, employ classic collage techniques, relying on a breadth of simple materials - ink, paper, bits of linen, mylar, graphite, tape, and most prevalently text. Language is culled from an array of sources, often cut directly from books or transcribed on a manual typewriter. In the most formal sense of painting, these materials are conceptually driven content, while simultaneously serving as a method of highly considered mark-making.
how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say that I was sorry, 2018
linen, black gesso, typewriter ink on panel 72 x 48 x 2 in / 182 x 121 x 5 cm
The embedded text is the last line from Graham Greene’s “The Last American”
don’t tell anybody anything if you do you start missing everybody, 2018
linen, black gesso, typewriter ink on panel 72 x 48 x 2 in / 182 x 121 x 5 cm
The embedded text is the last line from J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”
what a wonderful world, 2018
linen, oil, typewriter ink on panel 72 x 48 x 2 in / 182 x 121 x 5 cm
The embedded text is the lyrics from “What a Wonderful World”
often, remote, outside, previous, 2017
paper, tape on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
Adjectives cut from Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams"
it's alright, ma (I'm only bleeding), 2016
paper, ink on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
Lyrics from Dylan's "it's alright, ma (I'm only bleeding)"
whiteness, 2017
paper, ink on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
"The whiteness of the whale" chapter from Moby Dick, cut letter by letter
this, 2017
mylar, paper on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
adjectives and adverbs cut from Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams"
her and her, 2016
oil, ink, linen on panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
language shared by two patients; taken from analytic session
doubt, 2016
ink, linen on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
secrets, 2017
tape, graphite on gessoed panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
notes from analytic session obscured behind tape
slips, 2015
oil, ink on canvas 60 x 48 in / 152 x 121 cm
Freudian slips taken from analytic sessions
you know what I mean to say one thing and mean another, 2015
oil, paper, tape on panel 60 x 48 in / 152 x 121 cm
cliches linked, letters cut from books
now and then, 2015
oil, ink on panel 60 x 48 x 2 in / 152 x 121 x 5 cm
mobydick, 2016
oil on panel 24 x 24 in / 61 x 61 cm
other, 2016
oil, tape on gessoed panel 24 x 24 in / 61 x 61 cm
desolation row, 2018
oil, paper, ink on gessoed panel
36 x 36 x 2 in / 91 x 91 x 5 cm
it’s all over now baby blue, 2018
oil, paper, ink on gessoed panel
36 x 36 x 2 in / 91 x 91 x 5 cm
where things meet, 2015
oil on gessoed panel, two panels 24 x 24 in / 61 x 61 cm
here and there, 2015
oil, graphite on gessoed panel 24 x 24 in / 61 x 61 cm