ARTIST BIO

With Gnynys Variations and N/Urban Narratives my artistic inquiry explores the visceral and analytical impact of narrative and aesthetic forms. My images are provoked by identity, ancient narrative and colloquial expression. My work is also inspired by the aesthetics and influences of popular culture, cinema, celebrity, music and social media. These concepts are rendered through a lineal, kinetic and idiosyncratic mark that expresses my spiritual/ retentive memory and emotive /respondent discovery. Images are rendered through large paintings using acrylic and oil crayon on textured canvas paper or board. I am interested in permanence and impermanence while creating a surface that is viewed as monument and edifice,thus creating the appearance of urban graffiti as well as an ancient inscribed artifact. 

Images are transposed and rendered through large scaled paintings with acrylic and oil pastel on textured canvas paper or board. Employing line and color as the primary means of mark making, form is developed with methodical and arbitrary line variation throughout. The integration of overlapping, primal marked text, in a variety of values, creates a visual vortex within a shaped tableau. Moreover, the application of line creates the appearance of contemporary urban street graffiti as well as that of an ancient inscribed stone artifact. 

Visual influences suggest elements of ornamental or decorative art as found in eastern (Hindu, Islamic,Yuan dynasty), African (Kuba, Burkina Faso) and Central American (Kuna) cultures, as well as in modern urban street art. Diametric and homogenous characteristics are investigated through the use of repetition, color scheme, texture and spatial variation as well as through the combination of ideographic and logo graphic elements; that together, attempt to create a centripetal, centrifugal and visual magnetic effect .