My work navigates the shifting terrain between meaning and ambiguity, where familiar symbols are broken down and reconstructed to reflect a fractured sense of identity.
Situated at the crossroads of existential searching and the absurdity of the everyday, each piece repeats, regenerates, and obscures motifs of masculinity—questioning their origins and reinventions in the 21st century.
Drawing from figures and icons of late-20th-century sports and pop culture, I investigate the visual tools used to construct myths of universal masculinity, unraveling their intent and repurposing their language. These paintings resist definitive interpretations, favoring surfaces that cradle uncertainty and invite viewers to grapple with contradictions. The imagery oscillates between serious attempts to understand identity and playful distractions, reflecting the inherent chaos of the symbols themselves. Camouflage and repetition, both as metaphor and process, echo the struggle for meaning within a world saturated with distraction and contradiction.
Beneath each surface lies a system of fragmented pictorial planes, where meaning is in flux. Forms emerge only to dissolve, oscillating between clarity and ambiguity. Positive space becomes negative, certainty gives way to doubt, and the viewer is drawn into this negotiation. Through these cycles of erasure and reassembly, the act of mark- making takes precedence—a tender, vulnerable counterpoint to the grand performances of "heroic" masculinity.
Moments of delicate paint and graphite invite intimacy, offering pauses amid the chaos to consider the fragility of identity behind the mask of performance. Yet these marks are fleeting, destabilized by critique and the shifting weight of cultural expectations. The paintings oscillate between trust and irony, sincerity and skepticism, holding up masculinity and heroism only to dismantle and reimagine them.
As symbols repeat, they become fluid, evolving from cynical critique to vulnerable exploration. Meaning is not fixed but perpetually renegotiated between artist, viewer, and surface. In this quixotic cycle, the work destroys its own structures even as it builds bridges to understanding. The result is a balancing ac
Drawing from figures and icons of late-20th-century sports and pop culture, I investigate the visual tools used to construct myths of universal masculinity, unraveling their intent and repurposing their language. These paintings resist definitive interpretations, favoring surfaces that cradle uncertainty and invite viewers to grapple with contradictions. The imagery oscillates between serious attempts to understand identity and playful distractions, reflecting the inherent chaos of the symbols themselves. Camouflage and repetition, both as metaphor and process, echo the struggle for meaning within a world saturated with distraction and contradiction.
Beneath each surface lies a system of fragmented pictorial planes, where meaning is in flux. Forms emerge only to dissolve, oscillating between clarity and ambiguity. Positive space becomes negative, certainty gives way to doubt, and the viewer is drawn into this negotiation. Through these cycles of erasure and reassembly, the act of mark- making takes precedence—a tender, vulnerable counterpoint to the grand performances of "heroic" masculinity.
Moments of delicate paint and graphite invite intimacy, offering pauses amid the chaos to consider the fragility of identity behind the mask of performance. Yet these marks are fleeting, destabilized by critique and the shifting weight of cultural expectations. The paintings oscillate between trust and irony, sincerity and skepticism, holding up masculinity and heroism only to dismantle and reimagine them.
As symbols repeat, they become fluid, evolving from cynical critique to vulnerable exploration. Meaning is not fixed but perpetually renegotiated between artist, viewer, and surface. In this quixotic cycle, the work destroys its own structures even as it builds bridges to understanding. The result is a balancing ac