TDS No. 4 Painting

**dimensions of artworks are in cm. (not inches)** What can I say I'm a man of few words, sure I get it in on a Friday tying one on with the boys but for the most part I'm just observing, watching the wind and wondering what happens when you poke the bear in the eye. I was born in New England. My parents eloped and that's where they settled and I was their love child. My father, a writer and painter and creative of all sorts, normalized art for me from a young age, and my mother, a saint, gave me some grit and some perseverance. I moved from a quaint and painfully boring Connecticut town to Amsterdam three days after my 18th birthday. I had two suitcases and an acceptance letter from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie of art and design, and I had no idea was I was getting into, other that this was surely better than anything back home. I threw myself into the great unknown and got two educations for the price of one. A worldly and wonderful burst of live action city international mayhem of new everything, and the other a deep and refined boot-camp of art and creativity, philosophy, fear, and sweat and glory and heavy lifting. The dual-sided aspect of my "college years" gave me more that I had ordered and I was fine with that. Since my graduation from the Rietveld I have worked and lived in New York, Amsterdam, and Istanbul. I did a residency in Brooklyn, got kicked out of the Yale Club with Charlie Finch and Richard Johnson (google it), made some of my earliest memories in the so called art world, most of them crazy, some of them lucrative, and got out with enough cash to get myself a warehouse of a studio upstate. After the juice ran out I got a chance to make work exclusively for a gallerist and friend in Istanbul, most expenses paid I packed up and headed east to make sculptures in the bustling bright orange energy of Istanbul's heavy industrial neighborhood, Sanayi. When the visa ran out, or the fine was getting too expensive, I can't remember which, I ended up back in my familiar Amsterdam once again where I currently live and work. And that about wraps it up, for the short version anyway. Artist Statment: As an artist I gravitate towards sculpture because I live in a physical world. We as people have daily lives filled with and dependent on buildings, and streets, and bridges, and machines, and movement through these connected planes.