Artist's Statement:
The black and white printed image, as basic as it may be, can still be found abundantly in our full-color, high-resolution society. Xeroxed fliers, newsprint, catalogues, yearbooks, and manuals are a few examples of this print format that I notice in everyday life. The simplicity and prominence of an image with only positive and negative space is what I find fascinating.
For the past several years I have been exploring different ways of manipulating photographs in order to reproduce them as large scale paintings. The subject matter varies and is secondary to the process it will go through, although the subject is important with respect to recognizability, detail, interestingness, and composition. The result is a reproduction of a reproduction which, instead of being deprived of human touch, has been reintroduced to the human hand. Images that began as photos have gone through a process that exaggerates their existing positive and negative space, similar to the results of a black and white photocopy. My goal is to convey a minimal yet appropriate amount of information to convince the viewer of the photographic likeness of the image. I intend for my paintings to mimic the aesthetic accomplished by repetitive production processes such as screen printing, stenciling, and photocopying while insisting that each piece be a one of a kind original painting which maintains obvious painterly qualities.
As an artist I am interested in a junction between man and machine: the point or points at which machine-produced imagery meets, or is reintroduced to the human hand. Each step taken to complete the work deliberately incorporates this theme to highlight both elements, Man and Machine.
Education:
Associate of Science, Audio Production
New England Institute of Art, 2003
Selected Exhibitions:
"Burt Reynolds and Friends" (solo exhibit), Christopher's Restaurant, Cambridge, MA, March - April, 2009
"BluePRINT," Blue Room, Cambridge, MA, 2009
"Hey I Know that Guy," WSAC, Somerville, MA, January 2009
"Off the Wall," printmaking exhibit, Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA, January 2009
"826 Boston Art Auction," Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, December 12, 2008
"December Salon," Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, December 2008
group exhibit, Franklin Southie restaurant, November 2008 - January 2009
"All Hallow Even," Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA, Oct. 31, 2008
"NIght Life" group exhibit, 307 Market St., Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 5, 2008
"Artists Speak Out!," Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, 2008
"Paint it Now," Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA, 2008
"BluePRINT," Blue Room, Cambridge, MA, 2008
solo exhibit, Cambridge Common, Cambridge, MA 2008
Parlor, Boston, MA, 2007/2008
South Boston Open Studios, 2002 - 2008
"From Here to There," Locco Ritoro, Boston, MA, 2007
City Hall, Boston, MA, 2006
group exhibit, Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA, 2006
solo exhibit, Delux Cafe, Boston, MA, 2006
Phoenix Landing, Cambridge, MA, 2003
UFI Coffee Lounge, Haverhill, MA, 1997
Park Plaza, Boston, MA - Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit (Gold Key Award Recipient), 1991
Selected Bibliography:
Editor's Pick, Best of Boston issue, "Best Use of a Basement in South Boston: The Distillery Gallery"
The Boston Phoenix, April 16, 2009
Murray, Erin Byers & Dumont, Mary, "Southern Belle"
The Improper Bostonian, Mar. 4-17, 2009 (color photo of work)
Curran, Caitlin E., "White Walls, Black Paint"
The Boston Phoenix, Aug. 20, 2008
Barera, John, "Distillery Opens Studio"
The Weekly Dig, Jun. 4, 2008
Winterson, Rick, "South Boston's 2007 Open Studios"
South Boston Online, Nov. 15, 2007
McQuaid, Cate, "Drawing on New Technology"
Boston Globe, Feb. 8, 2007
ART 617, Ep. 9, 2007
Related Experience:
Community Arts Coordinator, The Distillery
South Boston, MA, 2007-present
Gallery Director, The Distillery Gallery
South Boston, MA, 2007-present