Farmhouse 1 Print

Travel helps connect us with the simple pleasures in life: a sunset, taking a walk, enjoying the sights and sounds of a place you’ve never been before. My newest works explore the idea of removing the complexity from the places I visit, leaving only the brightly colored memories. Negativity surrounds much of our world. I choose to make my work a simple, less complex body of work. My urban landscape series began with Baltimore city, where I took pictures of my neighborhood. I took pictures of the alleys and streets, focusing on the obscure and nondescript rather than the skylines and tourist areas. I created roughly 50 paintings that focused on photo-representation of these images. I began traveling the world and exploring different places, realizing that every place has its own color palette. The most current series explores the neon color palette, which is a palette associated with Miami, Peru, and the Caribbean. With the discovery of color, I realized the joy in simplifying shapes and examining the effects of light. In my current body of work, I’ve examined the effects of black light and neon oil color. Currently, I am bringing the color palettes of my travels back home to the east coast. This painting, "Farmhouse 1" is about bringing the palette of Ibiza to where I live. This artwork is painted using oil paint. Neon color is not guaranteed to be lightfast so keeping it out of direct sunlight is recommended.