My paintings explore the ordinary and mundane, which often escapes the eye – unnoticed. Coming from a working-class family, I am interested in architectural and timeworn elements I find in the everyday work environment.
I began this body of work in 2011 and it includes three series -an industrial plant in Thomaston, Maine, near where I live and maintain a studio; cityscapes in New York City (I was born in Brooklyn), and major shipping port in Tampa, Florida where I also live and work.
I find power in unusual perspectives and odd angles that skew my sense of order. I’m intrigued by how fragmenting an image can change the perception of epic scale. I am attracted to the weathered surface of a freighter, cranes constructing a tower, or rusting equipment at an industrial site, all of which speaks to the universality of time and space.
Color plays a key role – how natural light in the northeast differs from Florida’s sunlight and how shapes and colors are perceived. Because my paintings reference, but do not represent reality, the work often edges toward abstraction.