Artist's Statement
My work explores the malleability of instantly globalized images and how they are fast becoming the new lingua franca in an increasingly networked world. I am particularly interested in the conflicts that arise between documentary image-making and painting, between mass media and art viewing contexts.
I cull source images from digital mass media outlets, in some instances archiving them to allow their original contexts to evaporate. My process highlights the role misremembering plays in a dubious mass media "reality" overpopulated by images.
Executed in single sessions, these apocalyptic-sublime landscapes are visceral re-imaginings of current events. They evoke epic social and geological shifts while the transforming the source imagery, allowing it to break apart or get lost in abstraction. |
