ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Here are two (they are equally honest):

(1) In art, I strive to extend the power of classicism not by miming previous forms, but by expanding (old) figuration and (new) abstraction via current sensibilities into an aesthetic whose value transcends the era of its production. My goal is to manifest art's most important social function: providing beauty, which cannot be expressed in the culture of political protest. My work protests against the falseness of spurious fashion. My politics reject democracy's failure of promoting mediocrity as palatable while excluding excellence as elitist. I seek an elitist intimacy that compels extended sight, the deliberation of beauty viewed, beauty envisioned.

(2) I make goodlookin pics, no more. No rethinking figuration or refining abstraction. No pimple-deep metaphysics, no religious release, no political ploys, no social suggestions, no denigrating profundity with pretense. Goodlookin pics, the end.

Favorite quote: E-BOOKS, NOT TREE BOOKS.