My work is most often about human nature and the human experience in the modern context. There’s also the reoccurring theme of people dealing with their space.
The series I’m currently working on is titled Human Animal. This series will attempt to take the most objective look “humanly” possible at the nature of humanity as an animal species in the modern world we’ve built for ourselves. This is no small task. It entails that I, the artist, must emotionally remove myself from my familiarity with humanity enough for an objective perspective, and then requires me to present my insights to a human audience in a way that allows them to consider the subject objectively. All of which may very well be impossible. The series will probe the limits of our understanding of ourselves.
The Human Resources series could be described as modern worker genre paintings. These images were compiled from memories of my own experiences working for two years at a Wal-Mart Supercenter. My intention was to create pictures that are at the same time personal and universal, timeless and contemporary. The figural compositions allude to classic worker genre paintings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to affirm the lingering presence of the working poor in modernized society. The corporation appears in these paintings only through inanimate forms such as security cameras, printed displays, and merchandise.
