A Nostalgic Nowhere

Visions of parks, waterfront plazas, playgrounds and other nostalgic public places are remembered, constructed, and demolished. These places deny the viewer the comfort of representing any specific location, and yet seem uncannily familiar. Bridges, transparent structures, and architectural remnants stretch monumentally across the paintings. Built forms transgress from optimistic ideas of the future into ruined, crumbling memorials of a forgotten past. The claustrophobic compositions press relentlessly upon the imaginary places. Pathways sometimes lead out of the frame — a connection to a better world.