Painting: Oil on Canvas. Size: 15.7 H x 19.7 W x 0.8 in I have found myself searching for ways of making lines and shapes that embraces imperfection rather than fights it. In this painting I did not want the viewer to get a sense of allienation caused by our obsession with perfection. I wanted to create a a strong visceral experience for the viewer that bypassed our need to critique. Keywords: real, simplicity, visceral, organic, direct, temperature, intense

Painting: Oil on Canvas. Size: 15.7 H x 19.7 W x 0.8 in I am very interested in the way abstraction from its earliest beginnings instantly fed into all aspects of our lives and how this changed the way we see our world. I think a lot of my recent work has been finding examples of this lineage and reinterpreting it back into painting. Keywords: fed, abstraction, history, interpretation, lineage

Painting: Oil on Canvas. Size: 47.2 H x 59.1 W x 1.6 in I wanted this piece to be very direct in its engagement with the viewer. In a way it is a representation of my memories of television as a child. The brain will re-align things into a perfect grid or a perceived perfect grid, even when things are obviously misaligned. The eye and brain are not accurate but are the best possible reasoning given the available data. I want to see how, as an artist, I can manipulate this data and effect the m