Visual Art – San Francisco
I am a painter that lives in and works in Oakland, CA. My work explores the intersection between the man-made and natural worlds. They celebrate man’s desire to build, innovate and create, while acknowledging the fact that our impulse to grow and consume is eroding the ecological framework that we depend on to sustain our often wasteful habits. In these paintings pools of ink recede like oil-saturated waters at low tide. Trees emerge from a tangled field of structures, gears, and wires. My process involves equal parts control and chaos, and echoes tenuous socio-ecological relationships depicted in the imagery. The paintings pay tribute to the resilience of the natural world and encourage the viewer to reconsider the perceptual boundaries between man and the environment.