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PROCESS
My paintings can have up to 20 working titles scrawled on the back of each canvas by the time they're done. As much as I try to honor the original concept (which can begin as either a sketch or a phrase), as I add layers and colors to the piece, the meaning shifts subtly and a new title suggests itself. I'm sometimes tempted to give paintings multiple titles but then feel compelled to pick one in order to consider it complete.
The images wander through the territories of Horror and Fantasy, twin stepchildren of Myth still lurking in the bowels of the information age. I combine these intertwined populist genres with many other artistic and cultural influences to speculate on the psychic paranoia of a culture that squanders its beauty on systems of control and manipulation.
I work with a combination of oil, acrylic, egg tempera, charcoal, and ink, experimenting with modifications of traditional glazing techniques applied to panels and canvases. I frequently paint with my fingers, and incorporate additional ingredients such as paper, glue, hair, cloth, blood and dirt.
INFLUENCES
I have been primarily infected by the dreams and nightmares of Bosch, Blake, Ernst, Bacon, Fuchs, Dalí, Dürer, DaVinci, Giger, Varo, Bellmer, Albright, Moebius, Crumb, Gorey, Nerdrum, Magritte, Beksinski, Carroll, Poe, Dunsany, Lovecraft, Ballard, Stephenson, Herbert, Dick, Burroughs, Lynch, Cocteau, Gilliam, Svankmejer, Lucas, Henson, Jodorowsky, Quay and Cronenberg.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
- World Art Expo 2009, Brea/Los Angeles. June 2009
- Peter Jones Gallery , The Grand Goodbye. Chicago. June 2009
- Chicago Artists' Coalition, CAC Art Open. Chicago. October 2008
- The Nineteen Hundred and One Gallery. Blasphemous Beltane. Chicago. May 2008
- Aesthetic Eye Gallery. Isolation. Chicago. April 2006
- Aesthetic Eye
Gallery. Chicago. October 2005
- L2kontemporary. Inside
Out. Los Angeles. July 2005
- Peter Jones
Gallery. Strange and Bizarre Art Show. Chicago. July 2005
- Aesthetic Eye Gallery. Chicago. October 2004
- Perihelion Arts. Phoenix. September 2004
- Around the Coyote.
Fall Arts Festival. Chicago. September 2004
- High Risk Gallery.
Chicago. July 2004
- New Arts Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works. Kutztown, PA. May
2004
- High Risk Gallery.
Chicago. February 2004
- Limner Gallery. New
York. December 2003
- Diego Victorio Gallery. Miami, Florida. November 2003 photos
- Limner Gallery. New
York. October 2003
- Chicago Artists' Coalition,
CAC Art Open. Chicago. October 2003
- Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brave Destiny. New York. September 2003
- Society for Art
of Imagination 5th Annual Juried Exhibition. New York. September 2003
- Morgan Park Academy. Visiting Artist Exhbition. Chicago. September 2003
- Monkey Business
Gallery. Chicago. September 2003
- Around the Coyote.
Fall Arts Festival. Chicago. September 2003
- High Risk Gallery.
Chicago. August 2003
- Galleri Art. Kirkcudbright, Scotland. August 2003
- Cork Street Gallery. London. July 2003
- David Leonardis Gallery.
Chicago. July 2003
- New Arts Invitational Salon Exhibition. Kutztown, PA. May 2003
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Ward Gallery. Chicago. April 2003 *
- Monkey Business
Gallery. Chicago. March 2003 * photos
- Zoo Studios. Chicago. December 2002 *
- Northwestern
University, Dittmar Gallery. Chicago. November 2002 *
- Dark Millennia Studios.
Denver. July 2002 *
- Stolizzo Gallery. Chicago. October 2001
- Chicago Artists' Coalition,
CAC Art Open. Chicago. October 2001
- Excalibur,
Aura - Dome Room. Chicago. August 2001 *
- Rubber Monkey Puppet
Company Gallery. Chicago. July 2001 *
- Columbia
College, Glass Curtain Gallery. Chicago. November 2000
- Peter
Jones Gallery. Adam and Eve Show. Chicago. July 2000
- Dupreau Gallery. Chicago. March 2000
- 2828 Gallery. Chicago. November 1999
- CBGB Gallery 313. New York. June 1999
- Izzo's Artery. Chicago. February 1998
- Guilty & Innocent. Chicago. January 1998 *
- Poop Studios. Chicago. September 1997
- Altered Image Gallery. Cleveland, Ohio. August 1997
- Studio Danzalla. Kent, Ohio. March 1993
- Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. December 1992
* solo
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Excalibur (Dome Room/Aura), Chicago
Elve's Palace, Madison
FUNDING
2004 George Sugarman
Foundation Grant
PRINTS
Certain original paintings are available for sale on the Available Work page.
Otherwise, most of my recent work is now available in "Giclée" prints,
printed on archival watercolor paper, rag paper, or canvas in the following sizes:
8"x10" print - $50 + shipping
16"x20" print - $100 + shipping
18"x24" print - $125 + shipping
larger size estimates available by request
Contact me for print requests and size estimates
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