Bleak American Tradition is a suite of recent landscapes made with pigments, rain water and saliva during the winter solstice of 2020 in rural Kentucky. The title painting of this collection was made on the same afternoon that the insurrection of the U.S. capitol building took place: January 6th, 2021.
I seek the extraordinary in everyday changes and juxtapositions between human and non-human worlds. I try to make myself available to chance contact with these forces and allow their presence to influence and even collaborate in my practice. Recently, my painting practice has been focused on plants and trees as blind witnesses of history and silent participants in change. With my paintings and drawings, I use color and negative space as analogies for the vital forces of time that shape the human fields of perception and mood in relation to human and non-human events. I search for ways to release control of these forces as they pass through my senses and flow onto the surface as poetic ritual
Stills from various productions.
2024, Gallopalooza Commission for Kentucky Performing Arts Center
Objects was a series of works made in collaboration with Erik Pedersen and were made entirely from the detritus of a short film and album we made together using a single cassette tape.
