"They combine 3D elements with 2D painted planes which are almost billboard-like presentations intermixed in the work in a novel way. How do you approach such a thing? One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it."
"My studio is across the street from Creative Woodworking and they have a box where they put scrap wood for anyone who wants it and it's irresistible to me and there were a bunch of oddly shaped things with multiple sides so I painted on them realizing that different themes could coexist depending on which side and that led to adding sculptural elements and words and basically opened a new horizon for me."
"Like most artists, we are compelled to make things. When I was a cub scout we were making dioramas and I made a swamp with frogs and turtles and it seemed real to me I could barely sleep because I was imagining it and to this day sculpture has that affect on me. I restrain myself and keep it a supplement to painting which I've spent a lifetime trying to get good at but sculpture always whispers to me."
Painted scrap wood from a nearby woodworking shop provided oddly shaped, multi-sided planes that allowed different themes to coexist depending on which side faced forward. That discovery triggered additions of three-dimensional elements, words, and sculptural components that transformed billboard-like painted planes into hybrid mixed-media sculptures. Early experiences making dioramas created a lasting appetite for tactile, immersive forms that continue to provoke vivid imagination. Sculpture functions as a whispered supplement to a lifelong commitment to painting, enabling exploration of new formal horizons while preserving painting as the primary discipline.
Read at Hi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
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