ART STATEMENT
My recent work suggests a loose narrative relating to innocence, isolation, beauty, fantasy, and war. This narrative is based on my relationship with American culture(s) and influence regarding beliefs, values and imagery. In response, I simultaneously exploit, embrace, reject, celebrate, and accept my environment in an attempt to fabricate a world of personal beauty.


Below is a paragraph selected from the exhibit "Neo-Pink":
I chose the title, “Neo-Pink,” based on the aesthetic and conceptual parallels reoccurring throughout the exhibit. Neo: meaning a new form or a revival of an old one, and the many associations towards the color pink: gender, vulnerability, and politics to name a few. The work exhibited is my interpretation of a new global, fantastical, beautified, war culture where I imagine myself documenting or taking snapshots of moments within society. These paintings are personal ideas and images derived from the impact of globalization and the western world’s role on our visual landscape. The subject matter often contains a combination of child like figures and American symbols or influences within a monochromatic, desolate landscape. The children signify innocence, beauty, and purity; whereas, the color pink serves various purposes; one being to unify the image, another is to possibly sugarcoat the reality beneath the surface, and lastly to imply a serene, utopian atmosphere.