about

Returning from military service, and ready to start over, I chose art. I took studio classes quite independently, and found myself drawn to representation – among ardent abstractionists. I was undeterred. I left school intending to work with my hands, and to pursue art on my own. Since then I’ve had an interesting round of occupations – all the while, maintaining a studio and continuing to paint. My strategy has been to strengthen my images and improve my technique, while waiting for a change in public sensibility – toward representation and self-verification. It has been my belief, throughout, that representation forms the unconditional middle ground between artist and viewer, and that voice arises as a resonance between the manner of depiction and the viewer’s natural expectation.

As a painter I cover many genres, regarding subject as a vehicle for painting rather than as an end in itself. That being said, I am less interested in real time depiction than in the way a moment’s vision is recalled in memory, as a constellation of related elements. Signifying cues are over-driven to reconstitute an earlier, more fundamental impression – the mechanisms of recognition are invoked, to produce an image more believable than prosaic realism.