SERIES
The collections featured on this website are dynamic and continuously developing. Each series possesses distinct characteristics, yet common themes and motifs resonate throughout all three. The creative process begins with digital ink drawings, which are subsequently explored as acrylic paintings.
TROUBLE
IN UTOPIA
Radiant hope…haunted horizons
A towering shadow, both menacing and terrible, hangs like a dream smeared shroud. It drifts hazily, floating over a reassuring aroma of fresh-mown lawns and household cleaning products. Families of neck-tied men, cotton dress women and bright, curious children populate suburban scenes. Here we see figures and signs, actions and reactions; the ancient drama of human society, striving for a perfect world, while intrinsically engulfed in the inky ring of an apocalyptic death-cult.
UNKNOWN
MYSTERY
A fallen world of ash and pale memory
In a world as monstrous as it is mysterious, the ghostly remains of past civilizations haunt the dark, shadowy recesses of modern human society—actors in an archaic play, their countenance a dark veneer of mythical masks. Ancient landscapes populated by looming and broken statues of abandoned gods set the scene while unidentified objects circle the skies. What emerges is an eerie caricature of human absurdity manifest by a death wish.
ABANDONED
CITY
Beaten and peaceful visions of an aftermath
While living in the city and pursuing his painting studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, the artist became captivated by the Bay Area Figurative Movement. This inspiration led to a series of works that reflect the distinctive rolling architecture and fresh ocean breezes of San Francisco. The paintings focus on the iconic Victorian row houses and weathered shops, portraying them as desolate and lifeless, set against a backdrop of poetic decay. They evoke a haunting, dreamlike quality, mirroring the artist's own experiences wandering the quiet, midnight streets of his Nob Hill neighborhood.
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