Gaius and the Spear of Destiny Spear of Destiny, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 32 Inches
Hello Fausto, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 32 Inches
Vouloir, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 32 inches
Mephistopheles in Red, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 32 Inches
Mmm Good, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 39.25 x 31 Inches
Bazooka, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 39.25 x 31.5 Inches
Gowanus, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 18 Inches
Watchung, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 18 Inches
Shackamaxon, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 18 inches
John (Listening to the Grass), 2021, Oil on Canvas, 39.25 x 31 Inches
Fever Dreams and The Logic of Sensation
Painting becomes a ritual, a means of lifting the veil, simultaneously revealing and covering invisible forces. To paint the foreboding, the joy, the release, rather than the horrible dullard of boredom. In the long run my paintings begin as people, places, and things, but they are not ordinary bodies in situations. What fascinates me are the invisible forces that impact form, they restrain desire, and camouflage a release. This is not the relationship of form and narrative, but of material and obliteration; to make desire present but invisible, a fever dream quickly forgotten and lingering.
