My work is an exploration of my current relationship to information and image. The investigation of our visual landscape, through media; Internet, Print, TV, filled with virtual and augmented images, advertising and other pervasive forms of looking, leads to a clutter of images impacting our visual experience.  Through these outlets, visual experience is flattened, homogenized, controlled and the permutations of seemingly disparate images and ideas become overlooked.

I look to my practice of painting as a metaphor of the current condition of images and ideas.  My work, through content, scale, mark, material and color pushes to employ and challenge our contemporary conditions.  The square surface as democratic window to the virtual, the obscured yet eventually revealed image of icons, text and advertising all lead to a use, abuse and investigation of the idea and meaning of image in visual culture.  The traditional medium of painting allows me to explore the nature of image as it relates to abstraction and mediation.  As the person making the work my decisions, corrections and mistakes as well as the use of recognizable images cause a shift in message or experience.  A tension is found between image, meaning and abstraction.  I skeptically and with great hope look to painting and the presentation of painting to contribute in new ways to our visual and artistic experience.  My hope is that the work invites the viewer to question and investigate their visual landscape in new ways.