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Intermundia Artist Statement

Some of my first memories revolve around making artwork. I turned to drawing at an early age to help make sense of the questions and fears that I had about the world around me. Since those early beginnings, my artwork has evolved into using several different processes to express those concerns. I am constantly interested in the communication of ideas and the investigation of materials and processes to achieve those means. I still have a love of drawing but have found myself increasingly drawn to the three dimensional and the making of objects.

Currently I work in the realms of drawing/painting, printmaking, and sculpture combining unorthodox approaches. My artwork is created working very intuitively from the unconscious allowing materials and marks to organically develop and eventually evolve into images and objects. My art is very closely connected with the trials tribulations of my everyday living, and serves as a kind of self-exorcism. In the same manner that ancient cultures sought to magically capture the spirit of their prey or enemies, I create art to capture or subjugate, and perhaps understand my fears, questions, and anxieties. Exploring and channeling these different areas of the unconscious results in powerful confrontations with a variety of segments of the self, some of which are unknown or repressed. This sometimes treacherous engagement gives birth to universal concerns that have occupied humankind throughout its existence such as separation, fear, the dualities of human nature, and relationships with individuals and the world around us. Another important aspect of the work is the emphasis on metamorphosis, regeneration, transformation and a realization that all things are connected.

This consciousness of the many states and condition of being human extends to the physical, psychological, and spiritual. There is a mysterious, mystical quality to the work and several of the objects deal with the power of belief and I carry a strong conviction that objects can hold power. Technically, it is important to me that the quick, reflexive nature of my creative process be evident in the work both in its construction and appearance.

The title of the show, Intermundia (Latin for the spaces between worlds), is a broad term that is meant to relate to the ambiguous space between positions; the space between the unseen and the physical, between despair and abundance, between our conscious world and the unconscious, between normality and madness, between the beautiful and the grotesque, between life and death, etc… It is an often unnoticed, aspect of our daily existence.

In viewing these works, It is my intention that the viewer take a moment to reflect and perhaps peer deeper than the surface level of many of these works. The motivations, desires, fears, instincts, and dreams that lay beneath the surface level are what truly unite us as human beings. Eventually one emerges to realize that we all have much more in common than we think.