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I was born and raised in Eden, NY, a farming community 25 miles south of Buffalo. I still spend half the year there, surrounded by the roads, fields, and silos I've known all my life. Because of this, a lot of my figurative work tends to lean toward rural themes.
Some of my recent works are woven paintings. In this process I create two similar paintings on canvas or paper, then cut or tear the paintings into strips and then weave the strips from the two paintings, creating a dimensional image with half of each painting hidden. I've repeated this process with old palette papers as well to create colorful, abstract woven pieces. |
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Currently, I've found inspiration in reusing old styrofoam food containers. I follow a similar process to that of my woven paintings, creating two similar images and then cutting each image into styrofoam “tiles.” I then assemble the pieces from each of the two paintings in a grid on 8” x 8” stretched canvases or within "gilded frames" made of whole painted food containers to create two new works. The reuse of styrofoam has become very important to my aesthetic. By using something as banal and harmful as styrofoam, I am making a tiny effort to clean up our planet.
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