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Artist Statement My work is inspired by the glamour-driven images and luxury commodities found in fashion/lifestyle magazines and art publications. I am simultaneously seduced and repelled by the perfection and the beauty found in commercial photography and advertisements. My aim is to create images that seduce the viewer in a way that only painting can through texture and the mark of “hand-made”. At the same time, I want to mix in concepts that reign in the advertising world like flatness and stylized shapes to juxtapose them with the mark of the brush. I offer a critique of the superficiality and the artificialized-nature that comes with the highly designed interior landscapes shown in the media. Architecture and interior design are often used to create moods, imply actions or set the tone for ritual. I see these interior spaces as stages for action. An excerpt from a review of "Untitled 6" at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN: "I can’t write about all 20 of the artists in the show, but the standouts – Joe Sinness, Mason Eubanks, Audrey Bernard, Sarah Thibault, Garrett Perry, Jonas Lindberg, and Katherine Redford—all present work that has good reasons to ask for your engagement. The pieces cover the ground between their intention and ... [ Read all ]