My paintings are associated with the 'apocalyptic sublime', a metaphysical condition of astonishment and awe in the presence of huge or uncanny natural, human and technological forces. I cull my source images from the Internet and reinvent them as paintings, which I execute in single sessions. I am interested in our relationship to the image in the media, and in media representations of the landscape as an embattled space where cultural forces and nature intersect.
In my new series, Boom + Bust, the focus has shifted to the sky. The horizon line has vanished. Explosive, phantasmagorical shapes evoke painterly tropes and pop iconography, as well as psychological, cultural and economic cycles of creation and destruction, biological transformation, seismic contraction and cosmic expansion... |
