About / Artist Statement
As
a multidisciplinary artist, I am committed to producing art that engages a broad array of
subjects and ideas. This is reflected in my works which consist of diverse
mediums and processes including graphic design, digital imagery, printmaking, painting,
sculpting, poetry, song composition, clothing, website design, animation, drawing,
lighting, installation art, abstract art, Op art, conceptual art, political
art, black light art, maximalist art, and various combinations of these... My art has been evolving to repeatedly become
more complex, dense, and/or layered as these elements correspond with my
view(s) of reality and the overwhelming “universe” we live in. I often
experiment by mixing, compiling, appropriating, sampling, remixing and
recycling art; these practices make it possible to incorporate almost anything
I want into my work.
I make art for many reasons which often overlap; to explore, to learn, to teach, to try to create something original, to exercise my abilities, to stimulate thought and/or critical thinking, to create awareness and reflect the surrounding complex world(s) we live within, to create things that are aesthetically pleasing to me, to create dialogue, to entertain people including myself, to give me a greater sense of self worth, to use my potential, to see what I can possibly create, to make political statements, to convey emotion and/or reasoning, and so on…
It is often important to me that my art stimulates thought and a deeper consideration of its content. While enjoyable, it is not only that. I like complex/dense art because it is harder to take in all at once and stays interesting versus being able to be completely figured out or remembered in a single or just a few exposures to it. I sometimes think of myself as a “Maximalist” as most of my work is anything but minimal. I also think of myself as an “Indefinablist”, as an artist who refuses to accept a single given definition. This relates to my art because no matter how someone tries to define my art I can look at it from a different perspective or come up with an opposing or different viewpoint, and/or find other relations concepts relative to my art, as art is so subjective and relative.
I make art for many reasons which often overlap; to explore, to learn, to teach, to try to create something original, to exercise my abilities, to stimulate thought and/or critical thinking, to create awareness and reflect the surrounding complex world(s) we live within, to create things that are aesthetically pleasing to me, to create dialogue, to entertain people including myself, to give me a greater sense of self worth, to use my potential, to see what I can possibly create, to make political statements, to convey emotion and/or reasoning, and so on…
It is often important to me that my art stimulates thought and a deeper consideration of its content. While enjoyable, it is not only that. I like complex/dense art because it is harder to take in all at once and stays interesting versus being able to be completely figured out or remembered in a single or just a few exposures to it. I sometimes think of myself as a “Maximalist” as most of my work is anything but minimal. I also think of myself as an “Indefinablist”, as an artist who refuses to accept a single given definition. This relates to my art because no matter how someone tries to define my art I can look at it from a different perspective or come up with an opposing or different viewpoint, and/or find other relations concepts relative to my art, as art is so subjective and relative.
