These works speak directly to the current political/social climate in the United States.  Somewhere between elation and despair our country seems to be moving toward tribal bifurcation.  Passionate participation manifests as outrage and tumultuous emotional expression.  The yelling and screaming abstract figures found in these works have references in recent political rallies, concert attendees and moments of boiling anxiety. 

These works are also about painting and the language of paint.  The space is simultaneously rendered and flat, while the paint runs and drips in layers of thin and thick paint.  Through these works I explore the space between beauty and the expectations of beauty with the unsettling transition into visual chaos.  Sometimes beautiful and sometimes grotesque, these works speak to the emotional state of political and social extremism through the physicality of paint.

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