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My art facilitates movement in all areas of my life and my life facilitates the radical movement in my art. Things in the concrete world either inspire the images I create or I create to express an inner reflection within my own soul. I use flowing yet aggressive strokes when I paint, draw, create digitally and with some of my photo processes .I combine knife etchings on the plexiglas, plaster, or other materials for texture to my image. I feel that my art swings between action painting, lyrical, gestured, & self-expressionistic; my composition is dependent on my instinct and education. Yet it is more likely to come from my instinct. I am certainly not trying to communicate pleasure nor smooth over anything in existence with art. My palette creates dynamics that are true to the climaxes in life, the primitivisms, the contrasts and the dualisms that can drive us insane. I find my technique much more gratifying to my senses. Creating aggressively keeps facilitating play and movement in my life and my art.
Though time keeps evolving and I too evolve in time, my art grows as well. I prefer a painterly style. I try to explore interactions between line and color, and add more than a one step process to each image. I express abnormalities more than normality because the abnormal is more normal to me than realism.
I have been experimenting with materials such as sheet metal, plexiglas, acetate and wood with paper, photos, digital images and paints, etc, to enhance the experience and dimensions of an image. I find that these materials add more movement in the image and as a whole.
Though I am a big fan of Pop Art, I prefer to create cartoon caricatures in painterly, fine artistic manner. The post modernists’ believe that deterioration is a constant in our existence; I agree; yet as with dualism, the creation of life is just as present. I express both. One way of expression I like is the cartoon imagery. I feel cartoon is almost an idea or image stripped of realism and in a sense, a statement of reality today. The contrast of the two approaches (painterly with caricatures or cartoon) when they are manifested in one image makes me laugh and frustrates me at the same time, just like life. If I do develop an image to be more than cartoon and focus on details, I usually prefer once again to play with the bold linear and color interactions that cause movement and rotation around the image. Both ways of expression are very important to me.
The gesture poses that I learned in figure drawing while in college have always held high energy and smooth flow to me. I prefer to lock in that gesture and flow than to get too involved with the detail of an individual. I feel you can capture more of a universal feel when these gestures are expressed.
Once I finally realized that life is filled with repeating scenes, emotions, thoughts and situations and that these things have been going on since man has existed, I began to see the universality of even a landscape and that simple as it may be, it too is universal. I call them “Life’s clichés”. Sometimes they drive me mad, but I am committed to produce images for the rest of my life in this time and space that I am here. I am also committed to continue the production of my technique and willingly find new media to express these clichés that I experience as well. I believe there are no limits in dramatizing the movement of life in 2D imagery. I also commit donations to charities in the US and globally with 10% of my annual sales.
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