Recent Paintings

The “Business & Pleasure” Series

Sleeping With the Secretary

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Using methods of constructing and deconstructing, I am constantly re-using and re-purposing my own artwork.  This series titled “Business & Pleasure” is created from business attire donated from bank employees that has been hand stitch together with torn up sections of my own past “failed” work and scraps of new canvas.

Inspired by the Economic Recession, Bank Bail Outs and the emotional ups and downs that have followed these events, I literally “destroyed” my past work in order to rebuild it again in a new form.  The results are organic, quilt-like surfaces made from painted canvas where the sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious influence of the khaki’s, collared shirts and nylons lay within the composition as reminders of the ever present influence of money on the creation and promotion of Art.

The works are physically fragments of new and old, success and failure.  They are bits & pieces of my past and present, likes and dislikes, a merger of corporate requirements and the livelihood of being an Artist. The past always present in the current and future works, they tell a story of my progression as an Artist, and question the finality of Art.

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These works are very similar in process to the project proposal Hung Out to Dry.  Many of the materials used to create both series have been coming from the same sources.