My recent paintings explore boundaries.  They float in the space between the genres of landscape, portraiture, and still life.  They engage in a conversation between high and low art. These works also explore the limits of representation – posing the question:  How far-removed can a painting be before it ceases to represent the original subject?

I am attracted to the figurines because of their personalities – they are strange, comical, and slightly discomforting.  This body of work lies somewhere between still life and portraiture – it borrows from each, but doesn’t fully conform to either genre.  I choose to isolate the figurines in a simple environment to focus on conveying the personalities of these non-living objects.
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Concurrently, I am working on a series of paintings that replicate elements of landscapes in a shallow two-dimensional still life.  The intention of these paintings is to explore the space between the genres of landscape and still life.  I am interested in the interplay between the seemingly infinite scale of landscape and the finite scale of still life paintings.