Artist's Statement
2010
We wear our lives on our faces. These portraits of people I’ve known or who
have caught my eye each tell a story in their own quiet way.
Using oil on wood, each painting is made quickly, in one sitting, in order to keep
the loose, fresh quality of a sketch. The size is intentionally small in purposeful contrast
with the greedy, loud and overstuffed society reflected directly in much contemporary art
of recent decades. I am attached in a visceral way to the fluidity of oil paint and the
nuanced textural and lighting effects it facilitates, as well as traditions in portrait painting,
although I am effected, in my attempts to capture glimpses of complex characters by the
post-Freudian dissolution of the self in the age of virtual reality.