Off To War Collage

Be it shiny, dull, big, or small, people have an impulsive desire to consume. American culture is obsessed with materialism and plastics are everywhere. At the heart of my artistic practice is the desire to make an object that can visually compete with the vast inventory of throw away objects on the marketplace. I make paintings that simplify forms and patterns found in our overly stuffed visual world. I work with everyday geometry and the human form to structure my obsessively tedious and highly crafted objects. My work both confronts and embraces materialism, reflecting on our fixation on consumable products that Western culture so rapidly engages in. Through a wide variety of mixed media, I create tactile, playful, paintings that function like eye candy, seducing the viewer with color, gloss, and glitter.