Art Statement
My focus is on the urban landscape. I look
to capture the complexity of the city with its layering of history,
meaning and function. Many of my paintings deal with elements of movement
and transition such as bridges, trains, highways and rivers.
I work in pastel as it affords me maximum
immediacy, color intensity and textural richness. The fragility and
purity of pastel gives a unique working experience.
I work primarily from imagination of remembered
scenes, sensations and desires. I start with a line drawing and add
blocks of color and tone as I progress.
My work's main concern is with the urban
environment and its attendant qualities of seriality, mystery and
implacability. I seek to reflect on the raw functionalism of the American
landscape and its non-spaces. The human relationship to these spaces
is stressed in my work by revealing the need for projection, escapism
and fantasy, when confronted by such indifferent surroundings.
Resume
Born: 1972: New York, New York
Resides: New York City
Education: 1990-1994 School of Visual Arts, New York,
NY
Solo Exhibits
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2007
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O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
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Il Sole II, New York, NY
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Uptown Art Stroll, New York, NY
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1995
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ABC No Rio Art Gallery, New York, NY
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