$5,000 Painting

I communicate through my work about certain current social topics that I find important. The medium of oils allows me to create dimensionality and add suppleness that depicts an almost palpable rendering of the subject. This medium affords me the opportunity to depict ordinary, often overlooked items in a distinctly tactile way. The common thread in all of my pieces is that they engender a conversation with the viewer about relationships. The work evokes to the obvious, if sometime unconscious, relationships that we have with objects we encounter every day. Aesthetically there is the purely visual relationship of the objects in a space, and to one another. My compositions transform those mundane objects into subjects that demand attention while engaging the viewer in the discourse that I wish to provoke. Ultimately, I would like to spark a dialogue between my work and the viewer, engaging them with stylistic and technical choices and having the conceptual subtext linger long after they leave the work.