I am an artist based in Berkeley, California. I recently exhibited my work in a solo exhibition at Zughaus Gallery in Berkeley and appeared in the Pacific Coast edition of New American Paintings - curated by Anne Ellegood of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. I studied at NYU and Parsons in New York City.
My work explores communication in the digital age: the near misses, the crossed circuits, the fragmented information, the jammed connections, the over-wired technological possibility which, paradoxically, can lead to misunderstanding, passivity, invisibility and alienation.
As a "wired" public, words are heard and images are seen constantly through sound bytes, advertisements, news flashes, all competing for the public's attention. Consequently, physical interaction with others - and with nature - has been minimized, digitized, hyper-realized and hyper-reproduced so that the individual's image – our voices, our selves – have been rendered blank. As trivial, disconnected information dominates the public conversation, our impetus to action is diminished.
These paintings mirror this overwhelming conversation in the form of letters and found images, cut from written media – collaged – which then burst with volcanic force, forming a mountain of reconfigured information that the individual is challenged to circumnavigate while also exploring all that is left unsaid, unheard and unseen amidst such forceful competition.
