To slow the viewer down, make the image feel like a long pause. Share my response with someone through mood, color, and composition.
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Oil on canvas and aquatint prints. Realistic but not photo-realistic. Paintings that depict the urban environment and involve the effect of memory, nightfall, and architecture on the viewer. I try to capture a place at a specific moment in time, where architecture, memory, and light combine to create a sense of stillness and calm for the viewer.
Where do you find inspiration?Living and traveling through city streets. Climbing to the top of a parking structure to get a different perspective. Visiting every museum and gallery I can to look at other artists' work. The drama of light at different times of day and historical visual sources like Film Noir and Alfred Hitchcock's films all inform my work.
What would you do with $25,000?I'd refurbish my one-car garage into a full-blown studio with skylights, HVAC, and a gallery/music recording space. Anything left over I'd use to fund exhibiting my work.
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