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Art can change how we look at our surroundings. The representations we see in art
challenge not only our shared, if rarely articulated, notions of legitimate
representation, but also what we perceive as interesting, or relevant to our
culture—as beautiful in itself. My goal in painting is not to represent objects in the
world, but to call attention to the act of seeing that makes representation possible.

My paintings are field notes from a life. Taken together they are a necessarily
incomplete account of my observations on what it means to be a human in the world,
set down in shapes and lines, colors and textures. For the past ten years I have
explored through painting the relationship between what is on, and what we perceive
as being on the canvas. In my most prominent series I paint my way into unfamiliar
territory, abstracting the ground of the canvas. I survey the canvas, isolating within it
areas suggesting discrete images. I paint around the edges of these images to
reveal them through a figure-ground reversal. These isolated images are, to me,
extremely important. They are an object lesson in how we perceive our reality. The
difference between signal and noise amounts to an act of framing, an internal act
motivated and not constrained by the external. These inscriptions reveal meaning
and order as functions of the mind. They are studies in differentiation.

Through my paintings I try to represent and distill the human compulsion to make
pictures, and to record the experience of seeing, of recognizing images in random
patterns and textures. My paintings also celebrate the delight that accompanies this
recognition, the combination of surprise and satisfaction of seeing differently from
one moment to the next. In so doing, they gesture toward archetypes, the images we
share, but which escape articulation. My paintings isolate and express the deeply
human feeling that what we see is ours and everyone's, that we are the first of many
witnesses to a reality ever unfolding

A SYSTEM OF STRINGS

2007
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
150cm x 179 cm

CEZANNE DEGAS AND EYE

2007
OIL ON PANEL
61 x 81.3 cm

STUDIES IN CHINATOWN

2007
acrylic and oil on custom panel
87 X 139.7 cm

THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG

2008
oil on canvas
121.9 x 91.4 x 6.4 cm

HOPPING AND HOPING

2008
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS
76.2 X 101.6 X 4.4 cm

REVOLUTION

2008
Acrylic and oil pastel on modified canvas
100 X 100 x 5 cm

UNRECOGNIZED LOVE

2009
acrylic and oil on canvas
70 X 90 cm

FRAGMENTS OF FORTALEZA

2009
Acrylic, oil and collage on canvas
150 X180 CM

Catch As Catch Can

2009
180 x 150 cm

Willem's Visit

2009
100 x 80 cm