I was very pleased to be offered a solo exhibition at Buffalo Art Movment. My work for this show has one foot in the pure joy of material exploration and the other in the serious contemplation of societal issues. My most recent solo exhibit at Buffalo Art Movement was a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ongoing war. The work came about after reading an article about Ukrainian dancers who continued to train underground while the bombs reigned above. Dance and war are both very much about human interactions; both are about the collective unit, choreography of movement, and sheer emotional exertion. Like in war itself, chance takes center stage in this series of paintings. I used random technological glitches to interfere in my initial stages, and have thus had to construct a more reactionary way of working to known and obvious source images – a way that removes me another step from familiarity and control. As a painter studying the effects of trauma on memory and perception, I try to paint in a way that reflects my interest in the way the brain works when exposed to trauma. I often explore thin layers, frenetic and searching brushwork, pentimenti, accident, and anomaly. Intense color relationships and varied edges evoke certain surreal conditions that shimmer between reality and unreality – where the corporeal meets the abstract.
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