Artist Statement
My work overall reflects on current American culture, my own mediated perception of reality, and humankind’s fraught relationship with the natural world. My imagery stems from different regions of the country where I’ve lived or spent a significant amount of time, including Central Florida, the Midwest, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Philadelphia region. Many of my paintings are based on small collages that I construct from printed snapshots, tourism advertisements, and color swatches. Operating in a zone between abstraction and landscape, the paintings grapple with my own American mentality and imagine reconstructed worlds, offering up a sense of possibility.
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