Opening Reception February 7th and Artist Talk February 8th.

“The world we live in is contingent on, and influenced by, massively unpredictable systems that define an understanding of space, place, and depth. My paintings are a conglomeration of signs, where the accumulation of imagery and painted layers creates a perplexing and tenuous notion of the “whole” built from many discrete fragments of perception. My work addresses notions of progress, instability, and system collapse as it relates to the built and natural environment. My artistic practice at its heart critiques the flawed modernist project through the exemplification of environmental signifiers that are emblematic of Anthropocene. My work offers a visual experience which invites the viewer to contemplate the role of land(scape). Painting can offer speculative fictions that play a role in shaping the cultural imaginary.

Technological systems that facilitate a vast amount of mediated information play an important role in understanding one’s environment. The hyper-mediated visual world alters one’s experience of space and place. Most of my work contends with various painting languages of abstraction, naturalism, digital codes, and diagrammatic schemes to layer representations of a place, resulting in a compounded view. The paintings' surface complexity is a product of the continual accumulation of visual imagery and materials. I integrate analog painting strategies with new technological applications, to create works that also dismantle the differentiation between in-real-life and digital modes. This remix opens new visual forms – artificial appearances – that allude to new modes of thinking and a pathway to positive futures focused on co-dependency and resilience. By deconstructing these hallmarks of western order – notions of control via industrialization and cultivation as the only pathway to progress – I invite the viewer to imagine spaces where the perceptual, personal, and the collective meet as a metaphor for hope in our tumultuous world. The work shown here depicts idyllic spaces that have fallen to ruin but have become fertile for growth and rejuvenation – an ‘uncultivated garden of earthly delights’. ”