<The threat of the rubber chicken HD> 2008, Oil and crushed lithium tablets on linen 20" x 36" (50.8 x 91.4cm)
This body of work is also a metaphor, for larger bodies, of people and of societies. If we mapped onto the human body, how we operate on societal levels, we would find grotesque beings being the result. The human body is a source of inspiration, for bodies of any size and complexity, to show that complex systems of independant organs, can operate in balance.
"I create plausible, realistic oil paintings, rendered from direct observation of clay models and sets that I construct myself. The paint layering technique is masterful and fresh, and the color is vibrant. Each painting has at most five colors, three of which are always only red, yellow, and blue.
I work in series with the models, and progressively alter a model for each new painting, and arrive at a series of paintings this way, from one single manipulated model."
EDUCATION
2004 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA 1995 BFA, University of Texas, Austin, TX
SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Ontogenia", L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2007 "Peristalsis", Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Meeting <2.0>, The Conference Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Sideshow", Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 "Re-Run Show", Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Strange Figurations", Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY "Process: Area and Volume", Nucleus Gallery, Alhambra, CA "Open Call" I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 "Christmas on Mainstreet", Regent Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Small Wonders II", Juried Exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "National Juried Exhibition", Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA "Black Market-Skip the Mall", Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Libertine Show", L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA "Works on Paper" Juried Exhibition, Long Beach Island, NJ "Bloody Revolution", Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Survival of the Fittest", Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 "Small Wonders", Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "All California" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA "Wall Works", LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA "Get it off your chest", Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA "New Art 2005", Michael Price Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 "FOUND Magazine Anniversary Show", The Second City Gallery, Long Beach, CA "2nd Annual Erotic Show", The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA "New American Talent 19", Jones Center, Austin, TX Gallery 26, Little Rock, AR 2003 "American All-Stars", Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
