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Growing up in Los Angeles and being surrounded by over the top advertising and the glitz of Hollywood instilled a love of illusion. A desire to explore the psychological experience of living in a society so bombarded with visual noise and simulated environments.
My Liquid Landscape paintings, reflect our current time of movies, internet, Facebook, My Space, U tube, video games, twitter, etc., etc., all the simulated environments we as humans glide through daily. Since these realities are simulated and made of digital numbers that appear real, I capture this in my paintings by actually taking pictures of paint, digitizing and manipulating them, and then embed these elements on to my surface along with a mixture of real paint, thus offering the same illusion that simulated environments offer...the real versus what is not real. Using an unnatural color palette that is synthetic and plastic as the digital and advertising cultures themselves, coalesces with an off balance composition that plays on the edge of whimsical, provoking a similar hyper stimulated response mirroring the off balanced and hyper simulated society we live in.
My installations further this dialog by fully engulfing the viewer enabling them to step within one of my simulated environments both psychologically and physically, creating an experience that engages the viewer on a deeper level. In much the same manner of existing in multiple environments at once, my installations interlace, overlap and converge upon themselves.
Moving away from the rigid boundaries of painting distinct with the edge of canvas, I'm creating a fluid existence that allows my art to melt into, embed, connect and disconnect, through the aspiration to fully engage a wall – essentially, becoming part of the space. My installations exist in the psychological space between object and life, reality and illusion
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