A (Brief) Statement Words can be useful for understanding a work of visual art but when they become a necessity the art is not worth looking at. With this caveat I offer the following statement regarding my paintings. If you think that these pieces reference graffiti you are absolutely correct. I began this body of work with an appreciation for the vitality and sensual qualities of New York street graffiti I’ve been exposed to over the past 20 odd years. A large part of that territory includes a repetitious cycle of artists over-painting other artists along with the authorities’ occasional, but always vain, attempts to get rid of it. The unintended result is to create a wonderful pastiche of random layering that, for me, provides an authentic abstract sensibility formed from the spontaneous relationships established between color, form and surface. In this I’ve found a visual vocabulary for my art.
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