“Untitled,” pencil on acrylic ground on Arches hot press.
“Untitled,” pencil on acrylic ground on Arches hot press.
For these pieces, I used lo-fi digital pictures so that the grain of the acrylic ground would act like the “grain” of the digital photograph. I think standing as an alternative to the careful renderings of photographic vision [...]
I’ve been frustrated by my work on many occasions, but for the past couple months, I have experienced a kind of frustration that has made me think of the first, and most consequential of these frustrations.
When I was a senior in high school, I made a collage — I used a photograph of a pair [...]
“The Sea”
Pencil and oil paint on mat board.
“The Beach Sand”
“Atlantic City”
The figures I’ve drawn over the past couple months are, I realize now, studies for these pictures here. As I was working on the studies, I became increasingly aware of their inadequacy. Each figure was an insubstantial outline, a frame of the human [...]
I haven’t posted any new work since the beginning of November, and it’s partly because I haven’t been working. I have a few new drawings, actually, but can’t really bring myself to post them yet. I think there’s some trouble with the series I’ve been working on. Firstly, I’ve been forgetting that [...]
