I paint images of cultural alienation in a society where cars are designed to be private meditation chambers, personal Zen living rooms; where isolation is encouraged (as long is there is an internet connection or television nearby); where the only human interaction is through imagery. We have relationships with pop icons like Christopher Reeve and Tom Cruise that stream 24 hours a day across our TV sets and computers for a few weeks before they are replaced by the next flavor. My existence as an artist, as a painter, is to consume the imagery around me and produce something more beautiful, more apt.
    Most important to me is that the work have a painterly quality: that each stroke is a color, shape, gesture and subject all at once.  In this way the paint and the color can infuse the subject matter with a beauty that it was previously lacking.  Elevating the artistic beauty of pop images and forensic photography lets the viewer reconsider the imagery and possibly meditate on their own isolation and the beauty and sadness of living in a compartmentalized society.