Biography
My work owes a debt to many past and present masters of figurative drawing, painting, and sculpture, although it is the result of a search for a modern and personal response to those masters and their traditions. The imagery in my work is usually recognizable and taken from our everyday lives and observations; at the same time, it is often juxtaposed in unexpected ways, like an octopus entering a bathroom window. Familiar but sometimes unsettling, the work references uncanny phenomena such as repressed dream wishes and the compulsion to repeat that we share in our collective unconscious.
Recurrent themes in my work deal with subversion of gender roles and issues of masculinity/femininity, ambition, longing, and our relationship to Nature as well as the nature of our own relationships.
