The works from 2000/2001 shown here are my efforts to resolve issues essential to painting, such as color, composition, subject matter and intention. In treating these ordinary photographs of friends or family in a minimalist fashion, who or where the people are becomes irrelevant for the audience. The figure foreground relationship and color system create a super-flat image that exists to disrupt and confuse the viewer, making it difficult to understand the physical space and time the figures exist in. Paintings, like wallpaper is destined to be hung on the wall for decoration. My more recent series deals with issues of memory and the psychology of color.

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