Destiny, 2004
Oil on linen
and
World-View, 2010
Oil on panel
Courtesy of the artist
Artist's Statement: As an "Experiential Realist," my concern is to develop the traditional media of painting and drawing to a point where they become portals to the deep, emotional experience of contemporary life. I believe that when highly developed skills are put to responding to the world or to the environment, they can serve a greater purpose – a purpose that moves beyond merely perpetuating those skills in a hermetic way and beyond creating decorative objects. A work that responds to the lived and felt dimension can become immediate visual poetry, visual music. It can touch one in the gut and perhaps change one's world. At the very least, it might make one feel tenderness in a small, private way, if for just one moment. |