My work is an ongoing exploration of people and their emotions. Primarily working in painting, I embrace the challenge of realistic portrait
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I’m a figurative artist for the most part. I’m drawn to figures from the past: their moods, their settings, their quiet presence. These ephemeral beings appear briefly, yet leave impressions powerful enough to shape memory and perception. Through my paintings, I seek to understand their transience—and to offer that understanding as a shared emotional experience.
Where do you find inspiration?I focus on figurative work because I want to tell people’s stories. The majority of my inspiration comes from things or people that I see, and a voice in my head tells me that I need to paint that subject. It can come during a ride on the subway, in a hotel lobby, or from the people around me. Sometimes, the reason that I paint that particular subject or the meaning of the painting does not come out until I have begun the process of painting. I like to tell a story with my work. Sometimes, the
What would you do with $25,000?I would focus on a particular body of work I’ve been wanting to create without distractions!
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