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“Love ‘22” $2000 [SOLD]

2023 30 x 40" acrylic / Vanta black / India ink / granite sand / dirt / charcoal / on canvas

Artist Statement As part of the “Love” series (beginning in 2020), each year has brings different facets of expressions of love. Few would attribute jet black (especially Vanta black, which stops all light reflection, the purest, darkest black paint) with love. But as a collective, the world experienced untold heartbreak and loss during the pandemic — and love became elemental to us all. Amidst the darkness of the world, we redefined it in our own ways. Around 2022 we started to recover or emerge. Light has slowly begun to come back. Over 100 people contributed words that come to mind when they thought of love... and those words became rich layers, in various levels of visibility in this piece — but symbolic of us all. Love is a tapestry of the human experience—it weaves us together. Love leads us from darkness. Love illuminates our connections once more.

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“Love ‘23”

2023 14 x 18" acrylic / Vanta black / India ink / graphite / ink / charcoal / on canvas

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Artist Statement As part of the “Love” series (beginning in 2020), each year brings different facets of expressions of love. 2023 proved to be a year of unexpected twists and turns for so many. Joy and pain. Death and life. Gains and losses. Rupture and connection. Loss and reconnection. Growing pains. Ups and downs. The experience of growing from the heart. This piece was inspired by love and loss, the ripping and tearing of muscle tissue as a natural process of growth and strength, renewal, and increased capacity. Whether physical, emotional, mental, spiritual — whichever way we experience love — we all experience some degree of rupture and the tearing apart in our understandings of love. Then we heal, grow, and find strength.

In Situ
{from left} Love ‘22,” “Love ‘23,” “Indigo Black – I.,” and “Untitled”

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“A Race To Say ‘hi’”

2023 31 x 14" acrylic / Vanta black / India ink / beach sand / dirt / charcoal / on canvas
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Artist Statement
hi.

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“A Study For My Friends In Montreal”
2020 6 x 24" acrylic / enamel / gold leaf / on 1.5” depth wood panel
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Artist Statement
One of only three paintings done on a backdrop of gold leaf, gold enamel, and gold acrylic, this was a study done to prepare for a larger piece I did for dear friends as a gift. Experimentation was a must as many of the techniques I had used previously failed here due to the delamination of gold leaf and gold enamel... and led to many discoveries. As the technique was tested and confirmed to fail in one sense, I just leaned in and created a piece all it’s own without any attempts to avoid imperfection and failure. The “gold” is sometimes just that: finding beauty in imperfection, being okay with exactly what “is” in the moment, and without trying to change or control it. These are deep personal values of mine, and yet it took the frustrating failure of paint to cooperate with my intentions to be reminded of this, and remember beauty may always be there—no matter what (I’d set out to do in the first place).

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“B.A.E.”
2021 4 x 4" acrylic / on 1.5” depth wood panel
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“Last Day At the Beach”
2020 12 x 12" acrylic / on 1.5” depth wood panel
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Artist Statement
A set of two 6x12” wood panels were used for a study exploring gloss medium and potentially integrating hue into the Even In The Dark project. While productive to make color choices for a larger body of work these two studies yearned for further completion. After a long duration in storage they were accidentally stacked and created a beautiful horizon at the mid-vertical point, the meeting of sky and sea. I was instantly in love and fixed the two to become one 12x12” panel. Growing up in California I had rich color flashbacks of red lifeguard uniforms, black and white gulls, gray dolphins, the soft beige of sand, and integrated these memories... which so many posess... as flickering, reminiscent moments of reminiscent joy.