Artist Statement

The known and the unknowable exist together. They shape the way we experience the world around us. This is what I paint.

I work in oil and mixed media, painting figures, interiors, landscapes, and redacted documents. I never paint the full image. The gaps are there from the start because every act of seeing is partial. Rendered passages sit next to exposed Venetian red underpainting and bare canvas. These absences are load-bearing, holding the known and the unknowable together.

I call this framework Structural Omission. It starts from a simple premise: the full story doesn’t exist.

We live in a post-certainty era, saturated with images engineered to feel seamless and complete. Algorithms deliver pictures that look convincing even when truth is unstable. Structural Omission is my response. It makes painting’s limits visible at a moment when visibility and certainty have come apart.

The paintings provoke narrative without delivering closure. They are acts of generosity, respecting the viewer’s own impulse to fill voids or draw conclusions.

 

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