Artist's Statement
I appropriate news images from the Internet and re-invent them as paintings. This process allows me to explore the apocalyptic-sublime landscape as instantly globalized image. My subject is at once the content of these images, and the digital image itself as the new lingua franca of our increasingly networked world.
In addition to news images, my online sources have included military archives and scientific documentation. My work mines the inherent conflicts between documentary image-making and painting, between mass media and art viewing contexts, and revels in the friction produced when disparate mediums and modes of transmission collide. Executed in single sessions, these paintings serve as visceral re-imaginings of current events both far and near.
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