“The work references wholeness, vulnerability, deformation, fragmentation, so as to reflect what it is to be imperfectly human, as we all ultimately exist.”

ABSTRACTION

Upon starting my MFA work at Alfred University I was encouraged to change from the figurative work which comprised my admission portfolio.

From birth I embodied the incongruity of ideal form and deformity, so it became an easy transition to delve into the abstraction of figure, to reveal a deeper essence. I am drawn to the sensuous, to beauty unveiled through rawness and decay, to the stillness challenging rutted perspectives. I acknowledge absurdity just as I acknowledge beauty or peace or division or sexuality or any of the realities we face yet fear to face.

Of the symbols I use, most are personal, a few unique, some universal.

It has been said of me: “… his fascination with the human body, a subject he has tackled in myriad ways…”