This series of photo-based oil painting is a combination of photo images I have taken in urban areas, with oil paint for all the color, and narrative text superimposed on some of the figures.
I am expanding and shifting the parameters of traditional painting & photography by combining them with digital technology, narrative text, and resin surface on wood panels. By blending these mediums, it enables me to push beyond their conventional boundaries to create a new hybrid. These are one-of-a-kind works, not photo editions. By using text in my work, it adds another layer, and gives the viewer a chance to “experience” the artwork, and become part of the process by reading it.
My work is informed by the multitude of issues we encounter living in a metropolitan area: loneliness and alienation in our fast-paced society, the concept of personal identity and the loss of it, the passage of time, the individual as part of the crowd, and how we can stand out from the ‘sea of sameness’, since we each have our own unique voices and story to tell.
“At Motion and Rest”
“Everybody's Looking for Someone”
“Twenty to One”
“The Edge of Memory”
