Artist Statement

Throughout my 35-plus year career as an artist, my work has most often been described as expressive and dark. I agree with the former term, but have always chafed at the latter. In my mind, a work of art is only truly “dark” when it indulges in some form of schadenfreude or morose delectation. A large proportion of my work deals with dark themes, but I gain no perverse satisfaction from creating or presenting it. Instead, I use my work as an attempt to find empathy and pathos for the subject, no matter how “dark.” Empathy and pathos, however, have been hard to come by these past few years. As a result, many pieces in my new body of work are visual reports on the pervasive climate of fear and anxiety that I sense around me. With these reports I am attempting to make use of the raw feelings and come to some form of understanding.

Catalogs Available

My latest catalog “The Sleep of Reason” is now available. A survey of fantastic and monstrous images from roughly the last decade, it is my bestiary of the mind. The catalog contains over 60 works and an introduction by arts journalist Carol Kino, along with a few other surprises.

Preview and order The Sleep of Reason at MagCloud.

You can also check out my previous catalog The Ghosts on the Shore

Interview

I was interviewed by Artwork Archive about the meaning behind the monsters…
Read it here.