Each brushstroke is an expression, a small piece of the full visualization, and a physical record of the transitory emotion. It therefore it is also an expression of the self, and more specifically the self as a change agent in our contemporary world. With inspirations ranging from Gustave Courbet to Willem de Kooning, I use my art to convey an idea to the viewer, while also developing my own identity and understanding of the world. My work draws from the historic understanding of the painting, from the classical orthogonals to the modern objective shape, to create a unified, harmonious (yet not necessarily pleasing) image which will convey not only literal representation and symbolic meaning but also emotion, all through an understanding of the physical nature of the materials.

I use abstraction and color to create a togetherness within the composition of the artwork, deforming reality into a new idea through the process of painting. I do not follow the illusion of the painting as a window, but rather create the art as an object in and of itself, using our understanding of visual language to communicate my ideas on the two dimensional picture plane. My paintings speak through both subject matter and compositional relations.