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2010 2009 2008

My paintings are founded upon an ongoing investigation into transforming the modern abstract expressionist mark into the postmodern vocabulary. In my current paintings I use the pour and drip as a trope by changing them into a language influenced by graphic design, pop art, virtual reality and animation. They become a hybridization of these elements. It is my intention to incorporate the random and arbitrary through controlled accidents. I expand on Jackson Pollock's chance driven splatter method by harnessing the chaos of spilled paint and drips and creating order with the careful deliberate movement of a blow dryer. My process continues with a degree of almost mindless repetition of outlining while creating layers and interactions between each element. The marks I create turn into fragmented, animated personalities that uninhibitedly converse, move or quite simply play with one another. Often taking my palette directly from pre-determined sources such as Dr. Seuss books, psychedelic posters, the computer and cyberspace, I blur the line between the physical and virtual.