Hometown: Cortland, New York (USA)
Current City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)
Considers self: an artist
Is also seen as: a professor
Artist Statement:
My work addresses the exigencies of daily realities and redresses the refined aesthetics of art. My practice is diverse in media, united by conceptual and tactical approaches that present subjects rather than objects. I strive for a cursory clarity that becomes complicated with circumspection, an initial seduction that leads into intractable situations. I seek the naked, stark and confrontational and the psychologically torpid terrain where they reside. I aspire to an execution that is unassuming and transparent. I typically rely on the iconic, the familiar twisted and all the more recognizable for it. I frequently take recourse in humor and poetry to alleviate and intensify the bleak and unbearable. I choose to cloak eternal questions in topical garb, for urgency calls forth and may assist the living, discomforts the nostalgic, and undermines resignation.
Current City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)
Considers self: an artist
Is also seen as: a professor
Artist Statement:
My work addresses the exigencies of daily realities and redresses the refined aesthetics of art. My practice is diverse in media, united by conceptual and tactical approaches that present subjects rather than objects. I strive for a cursory clarity that becomes complicated with circumspection, an initial seduction that leads into intractable situations. I seek the naked, stark and confrontational and the psychologically torpid terrain where they reside. I aspire to an execution that is unassuming and transparent. I typically rely on the iconic, the familiar twisted and all the more recognizable for it. I frequently take recourse in humor and poetry to alleviate and intensify the bleak and unbearable. I choose to cloak eternal questions in topical garb, for urgency calls forth and may assist the living, discomforts the nostalgic, and undermines resignation.