"Swatch #1"
Acrylic Paint, Marker, and Gouache
24"x18"
2023
Created during a live painting event at Buffalo's Music is Art Festival
"Close Up #1"
Acrylic Paint and Gouache on Wood Panel
14"x11"
2023
Artist Statement for "Close Up" and "Swatch" paintings: The microscopic can be seen in the series of painted close-ups done of imaginary fabric swatches. These swatch paintings were made with the intention to spotlight the woven structure, the criss-crossing of strands, which is the makeup to so much of our surroundings. But while being significant in that way, the swatches are also isolated and completely INsignificant; a tiny, unraveling, brightly colored thing existing in space.
My previous work with clouds and fabric scraps, and their temporal process of breaking apart, were the early ancestors to my fixation on the “Insignificant”. I, as a human among billions, relate to the word “insignificant”. I battle with the negative emotions, the existential crisis’ upon crisis’, that go along with the impending feeling that I, like a tiny piece of fabric or evaporating cloud, am not important. And yet I, paradoxically, still am important.
"Close Up #2"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
14"x11"
2023
"Swatch #2"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
14"x11"
October 2023
"Swatch #3: The Unraveling One"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
12"x12"
October 2023
"Swatch #4: The Favorite One"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
12"x12"
October 2023
"Swatch #5: The Mellow One"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
14"x11"
2023
"Swatch #6: The Swampy One"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
12"x12"
2023
"Swatch #7: The Cool One"
Acrylic Paint and Gouache on Wood Panel
14"x11"
January 2024
"Swatch #7: The Cool One" detail
"Swatch #8: The One with the Snake"
Acrylic Paint, Gouache, and Marker on Wood Panel
14"x11"
January 2024
"Swatch #8: The One with the Snake" detail
Obsessed #1
Oil Paint
2015
Obsessed #2
Oil Paint
2015
Obsessed #3
Oil Paint
24"x30"
2016