#techboyz_14 Print

My work investigates the shifting concepts of the human body and its environment. I am interested in challenging the space between abstraction and representation by unfolding the implications of the structural and theoretical formations within the painting process. #techboyz is a fourteen-piece series of acrylic paintings inspired by the everyday life of young information technology workers and captures a special moment in time where they regain a sense of freedom after a long period of isolation. Working in the Mile-End neighborhood in Montreal, I was taken by seeing so many young men huddling together, searching for answers at such a critical time in their life. After enduring a long dystopian pandemic, this project has helped me get involved and turn toward new personal and professional progression. The series is grounded in my community, and it compelled me to develop new artistic endeavors. #techboyz brings together different strategies and techniques to express my relationship with the subject formally and conceptually. My work is based on fictionalized reality and the human condition, constructing visual situations with multiple layers of meaning and possible narratives. My ongoing concerns with abstraction and figuration enable a unique dialogue against a background of different styles. The patterns and colors allow certain characteristics to enter the process and blur the distinction between the virtual and the actual. I’m interested in experimenting with the hybridity of both form and subject, where the image is not only restricted to what we see, but how we experience memory, time, and space in our contemporary digital living.