Stand Behind the Fence Painting

I'll read a missive about a phrase coined long ago or catch a tag line on TV while on my way to the studio. Inspirations for my absurd titles come from out of nowhere and everywhere; some ideas fall in my lap. In this work, I hope the viewer finds momentum in the use of humor, absurd text and interplay of images and techniques toward a final image. I pick and choose what cultural references to mirror and with which layer of experience to craft the image. I've patterned much of my work on wrestlers. I test pictorial space and cultural imagery and hope to arrive at an adherence that sets forth its own language on the surface of the piece. The process of painting and drawing is always exciting to me and in this process I hope to challenge tradition with individual pictorial language, a layering of images. I attempt to challenge the significance of the image testing its symbolic and cultural references. I like relational absurdities, coherence and disconnection. I find dissonance can set forth its own language, visual or textual.