A loose menagerie of aquatic and surrealist imagery illustrated over the course of 10 months. None of the artwork was preplanned; I would freely add/modify the composition until the canvas seemed full enough.
In this collage portrait, I combine Artemisia Gentileschi’s "Judith Beheading Holofernes" and Caravaggio’s "The Calling of St. Matthew", using colored paper and red glitter to explore themes of justice, identity, and personal awakening. I insert…
This piece originally came in a set of 3, this one being the state between realism and the metaphor for a young lily flower. The undetermined edges and harsh impasto are done intentionally to show the uneasy nature that the self stands in. Like…
I have always struggled with falling asleep, so I wanted to depict the opposite of my reality. I chose to represent myself in a womb-like dream space where I am floating in a comfortable state. I wanted to use a common symbol of sheep related to the…
For many years, I’ve used the cotton-paper pages of my 1963 printing of Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud as the background for paintings and drawings. When displaying these works, I’ve frequently noticed viewers spending extra time reading…