Kedzie Livingroom Painting

My work is based on the places that I have lived in and other well known spaces that I recall from memory. Some of the paintings are large and complex, depicting the interiors of my past and current apartments; some are smaller, more intimate vignettes of the banal, daily interactions I have with my partner and our cat. Small exploratory drawings and collages become the basis for oil works on canvas. Comfort, intimacy and humor collide with color, pattern, and shape upon the picture plane. I merge wonky, awkward, and impossible perspectives with mundane, everyday still lives and occurrences resulting in paintings that are tenuously grounded in reality and also dreamlike.