As an artist whose work centers figuration and contrasting applications of paint, the use of narrative and an investigative use of signifiers is integral to my work. Conceptually, I am concerned with human incentive, artifice, and the dissection of classifications and assumptions—why we do what we do, and how this is reflected within society. I tend to work in series, each with a specific intent under an umbrella term that informs how the works are made and presented. A recent example was an exhibition from 2021 titled Rhetoric. Created in 2020 during a global pandemic, this body of work dealt with socio-political polarization and disassociative affect within American experience.
Currently my work pulls a thread from this narrative and deliberately impresses a sense of fragmentation upon the viewer. Placed against a black and white or tonal background, it visualizes an amplified polarization within American society and political discourse, specifically the reliance on binary categorizations: Right or Left, white or BIPOC, straight or LGBTQ+, privilege vs exclusion, and legal vs individual sovereignty over one’s body.