A Brief Statement About Recent Landscapes

   I began this series a few years ago. From the start, my thoughts were to build a painting around the three vertical planes of a landscape, using a different process for each. I needed to keep the marks basic, at times raw, and even crude, at a sort of everyman skill level and understanding. Through several iterations I arrived here.

 

   From doodles on a chalkboard, spray painted graffiti, to everyday drips, spills and splatters, these are the sort of marks that we all have a history with and can relate to. Still, these are formal paintings concerned with composition, color, texture, pattern, rhythm, and all the elements that make a painting work.

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   These are not stern or intimidating paintings, yet they are not soft or easy paintings. They are serious, smart, whimsical, and both visually and conceptually complex. They speak to a contemporary audience about what it is to be a painting while evoking a whisper about beauty and imperfection, brokenness, and resilience.