As a professional artist, personal work is very important. On one side you can sell your soul to the gods of decor, color, and cheesy subjects, but on the other side you can create personal non-commercial work that is of a more serious nature. Always keep both sides and that keeps the ego in check!
“Aires” – 60X72
$9975
Life in the park is always vibrant as it is a little unsettling. This is life as it is free, open, and uninhibited. This is Mad Max without the mad. Poverty isn’t often a pretty scene or a scene we want to see everyday but this is a world we are increasingly being a part of as culture and wealth of the middle class disintegrates. I’m only here to show it…
“Cadillac” – 60X72
One of the themes I explore in my personal work is the preoccupation of humans to focus their lives on the superficial and self image. Without the pursuit of purpose and meaning in life along with knowledge and charity life can fall apart leaving you with you and these things you cherished in shambles.
“The Lot” – 60X144
$19,975
The Lot is the grand finale for my show I had of the trailer work. It’s a self portrait as artist but also car salesman. I acted as the person who sold all the cars seen in the other paintings – thus weaving the narratives of the lives of those people within.
“Aires” – oil – 60X108
$15,975
This painting was part of a show I had called “The Lot” exploring ideas of generational poverty within neighborhoods. Each painting had a broken down vehicle in front of a diaplated structure. The sense that there was pride and obsession for the object but little for the self and as the objects degrades so does self. These “things” start to define the existence of the people depicted in the painting.
“Rusty” – oil – 24X48
$3975
“Rusty” is another metaphor for the idea material things degrade, fall apart, disintegrate but humans have the power to better themselves over time even as one ages, finding happiness, faith, and knowledge can be a lifelong pursuit.
“Red Rock Nude” – oil – 36X56
$4795
I love doing figurative painting but also landscapes. Combining the two creates its own sets of challenges. While the landscape will always play a supporting part, its relationships with the figure are extremely important.