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PRESS RELEASE
My work uses bold, bright color and collage-style imagery to examine and loosen the dialogue about race, culture and gender. My paintings are typically large, almost mural-like and are largely influenced by the merging of celebrity news reports, politicians, American culture and the drama of everyday life.
My earlier work was more narrative driven, in which I would focus on one particular story or experience, but I’ve become more interested in mixing disjointed narratives and abstraction, and finding interesting ways to obscure any possible story that can be assumed when viewing my work. I want the work to provoke the viewer to formulate their own ideas and answer any questions themselves surrounding the different subjects that I touch in my work.
My artistic practice has evolved to be more timely and reflective of the world we are currently living in. In one day, I may read the paper, get on the internet and browse through you tube, my facebook timeline, look at twitter, my instagram, watch the news, watch bravo, vh1, read gossip blogs, check my email 20 times, listen to music, and do this all while talking on the phone and texting, so it has now become impossible for me not to cover a multitude of topics. I’m living in an age of information overload. Therefore, I have expanded my artistic practice to mix, combine, and mash up narratives and ideas. And I currently use the concept of the “mash up” as a framework to pull inspiration from current events and contemporary culture to create visibly chaotic paintings that bring together seemingly disparate subjects.
