New 8/10/16:Been doing some writing to help me to clarify the work that I have been making these past 10 years or so. My dear colleague, Melissa Borman came to the studio last week and in our conversation gave me some great feedback! It was also nice that my long time friend and paint partner, Ed Charbonneau was there as well and we got into it as well! A great time talking art. So, I thought I'd post some of the writing that I am doing
Some Notes: My work is about the inward facing atmosphere that can be gleaned through juxtaposition and the convergence of multiplicity. Weather I am working between moments in a reactionary way, or deliberately combining multiple patterns, images, or data, I believe the limbo-esque state that exist in-between moments of action, or the juxtaposition of sets of data, reflects the true nature of how we understand the world. In our world, we are tracked and studied through online analytics - gathered hourly, monitored, trends are identified, and assumptions are made. This data is interesting in itself. How the data changes to create trends does help us to understand future behavior. Is the interpretation of this data and the fascination with it creating a new perception of human reality? Are these data piles forming a new definition of what it is to be human? Are more and more people relying on data, trends, and social media feeds to define what is real? Running feeds of desires, statements, philosophies, and arguments leave trails in the topography of our outward facing lives. Can some of these trends point to an outward-facing identity, a sense of self that is increasingly becoming reduced to false statements of fact, slogans, posturing, image, and observational relationship? My work brings some of these outward assurances together in one place and space to jumble through and past one another. Through this juxtaposition of layering, spaces, and comparison, a cloud of meanings and interpretations that more accurately portrays the beautifully chaotic world that we live in forms like the steam on a mirror.Rejecting singular definitions of self, society, culture, and place, for multiple ideas, possibilities, potential realities. These populate a atmospheric clouds of collective understanding that defy any singular constraining definition or measurement.
I am a painter with a background in Visual Studies, Music, and Public Art. In spite of our necessary belief in the traditional definitions of time, space, and present-ness, our definitions continue to evolve. Our concept of self, and our perception of physical reality is ever changing, being reinterpreted, and broadened as we come to terms with multiplicity in our social interactions and projections, constructions, and in physics.
Some Notes: My work is about the inward facing atmosphere that can be gleaned through juxtaposition and the convergence of multiplicity. Weather I am working between moments in a reactionary way, or deliberately combining multiple patterns, images, or data, I believe the limbo-esque state that exist in-between moments of action, or the juxtaposition of sets of data, reflects the true nature of how we understand the world. In our world, we are tracked and studied through online analytics - gathered hourly, monitored, trends are identified, and assumptions are made. This data is interesting in itself. How the data changes to create trends does help us to understand future behavior. Is the interpretation of this data and the fascination with it creating a new perception of human reality? Are these data piles forming a new definition of what it is to be human? Are more and more people relying on data, trends, and social media feeds to define what is real? Running feeds of desires, statements, philosophies, and arguments leave trails in the topography of our outward facing lives. Can some of these trends point to an outward-facing identity, a sense of self that is increasingly becoming reduced to false statements of fact, slogans, posturing, image, and observational relationship? My work brings some of these outward assurances together in one place and space to jumble through and past one another. Through this juxtaposition of layering, spaces, and comparison, a cloud of meanings and interpretations that more accurately portrays the beautifully chaotic world that we live in forms like the steam on a mirror.Rejecting singular definitions of self, society, culture, and place, for multiple ideas, possibilities, potential realities. These populate a atmospheric clouds of collective understanding that defy any singular constraining definition or measurement.
I am a painter with a background in Visual Studies, Music, and Public Art. In spite of our necessary belief in the traditional definitions of time, space, and present-ness, our definitions continue to evolve. Our concept of self, and our perception of physical reality is ever changing, being reinterpreted, and broadened as we come to terms with multiplicity in our social interactions and projections, constructions, and in physics.
