Consumption 4 Painting

Consumption 4 is part of my latest series "Consumed". A continuous and ever-growing creative concept that illustrates the perceived American lifestyle and current mass culture. This project grows and expands just as our culture and relationships change. The Modern Americana is a motif that I define as the contemporary arrangement of people and the synthetic environment they have immersed themselves within. This cultural framework is the designed and artificial setting that my body of work manifests. My work is an exaggeration of our current society and of pop culture. I mesh images together to create a dialog on our culture, staging images and figures to articulate perceived desire. Through the construction of paintings and designs, I present neither a positive or negative view but instead an inflated view of our American culture. The latest paintings developing this concept is the Consumed Series. It illustrates the powerful connection culture has to material possessions and the consumption of goods to enhance our identity.