About The Artist
ARTIST'S WORK
My work spans over fifty years. My drawings, paintings, abstracts, colored rocks, and construction compositions are diverse. My methods are crude, twisted, and trashy.
To clarify — "crude," I often evade precision from traditional art techniques, selection of balanced colors, composition rules, and multiple media choices. I like to employ "conceptual" undertones in my artwork and seek to "bring to life" the significance of the work. Lastly, I seek to "disturb" both my inner psyche and the viewer's sensitivity in my art. I search for subjective meaning, a "tension" inside that somehow propels a radically new perception of reality.
Twisted" in that, I devoid my characters of any realistic features; instead, I purposely contort eyes, warp faces, deform hands, and entwine bodies as one creature. Finally, "trashy" in that I use discarded items, previously painted backdrops, rotted construction boards, river rocks, and damaged concrete sculptures as media for creations.
I like the fast strokes of the pen and brush. Blending colors haphazardly on the canvas is a rush of excitement. I fancy my lust when I draw strange-gorgeous babes with slanted eyes. I admire how the surface of a rock looks like the shape of a peculiar, contorted face. I often use eye makeup to finish my paintings, thereby enhancing the depth of the paint's natural patina.
