DOB:
June 22, 1973 Winter Park, FL.
Pure Paint, Pure Paintings, Paint Objects…
Pure acrylic paint: no fillers or additives.
Conceived and realized in 1997 as 1/8” and 1/4” thick rectangular shaped slabs, attached to clotheslines.
Have no necessary means of support.
Abstract to functioning/non-functioning utilitarian objects.
“It’s all been done” and “Painting is dead”
Simulations, reproductions, hyperrealization.
Persons of Interest:
Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollack, John McCracken, Joan Mitchell, Peter Halley+Sherrie Levine(Neo-Geo), John M. Miller, Dan Flavin, Hans Haacke, Allan Kaprow, The CalArts Mafia, Ed Moses, Jeff Weiss, Van Halen.
Main St. Studio. Rochester, NY 1997
368 Broadway Studio, NYC. 2000