2010
These combined images of humans and animals reinforce the similarities between all living things, and the needs and desires that fuel them, while also referencing genetic engineering and evolutionary anomalies. This mutation summons archetypes and mythology, utilizing symbols within compositional structures that imply hierarchy and narrative, but offer no conclusions.
This hybridization is formally mirrored by the fusion of painting and drawing. Highly modeled forms are juxtaposed with transparent casements, flat silhouettes, and line drawings creating a tension of space and substance, of tangibility and perception. This tension extends materially through the combination of developed, structured layers of oil paint, thinned washes reminiscent of water color, and line drawings made with both paint and graphite on a field of clear-primed, unstretched linen, mimicking large works on paper. The human scale of the primary characters requires viewers to position themselves in relation, and identify and categorize these characters and scenarios in an attempt to determine self or otherness.
