Paintings

These paintings investigate the intersection of personal and public spaces. I'm interested in examining how consumer culture shapes our subconscious, identity and relationships.

“Paper Bullets: A War of Words,” an exhibition at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, featured new work that responds to and re-contextualizes PSYOPs (psychological operations) leaflets, as well as a 50-year survey of psychological warfare & military propaganda. My focus was subtle, everyday imagery potent to the American civilian psyche: the disconnect from war reflected in the banality of a dairy case, fashions signifying civility in a time of brutality, and Sam Fisher, a video game character representing covert action and unknown military threats.

Images

  1. Untitled #6 (Silk Jacket), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2004, Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA.
  2. Untitled #4 (Price Drop), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2004, Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA.
  3. Untitled #7 (Broadway), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2004
  4. Untitled #3 (Alfa Romeo), acrylic on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2003
  5. Untitled #5 (Soda), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2004
  6. Untitled #1 (Tea Ceremony), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2002
  7. Untitled #1 (Self Portrait), acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2002
  8. The Good Life #2, acrylic and paper on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2002, Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA.
  9. The Good Life #3 , acrylic on wood panel, 48" x 24", 2002, Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA.
  10. The Good Life #4, acrylic on wood panel, 24" x 24", 2003
  11. The Good Life #1, acrylic on wood panel, 24" x 24", 2003
  12. Untitled (Paper Bullets) (installation view), acrylic on wood panel, triptych; 18" x 24" each, 2003
  13. Untitled (Paper Bullets) #1
  14. Untitled (Paper Bullets) #2
  15. Untitled (Paper Bullets) #3