Working with common themes such as transition, aging, isolation, and loss, I am interested in the fragility of relationships and the awkwardness of a group of people trying to coexist and relate to one another. To that end I create miniature 3D models to serve as evolving still lifes from which I paint detailed narrative paintings. Most recently, I created a series of paintings and monotypes from the 4 x 1 meter lakefront diorama depcited above.

The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments. I am interested in storytelling over time through repeated depictions of the same house or car or person, seasonal changes, and shifting vantage points. Like the disturbing difficulty of trying to put rolls of film in order several years after the pictures have been taken, I hope the collective images suggest a known past that is just beyond reach. One of my challenges is to invite the viewer to form his or her own connection and narrative so that he may empathize with the occupants’ seemingly mundane existence.

For my previous project I contsructed a fictional model neighborhood. I considered who lived in each home, their family dramas, and the way their private lives might spill into view of their neighbors. The model became a stage on which to develop the psychological implications of belonging to a particular family, with all of its dramas, struggles and familiar routines. As I transitioned my model into winter, snowbanks of increasing depth seemed to fortify a sense of isolation and quietness.

The first group of the lakefront series, "At the Lake" was exhibited in January, 2009 at Richard Heller Gallery in LA. The final pieces were shown in November, 2009 in "Vacationland" at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Other exhibitions have included "Neighbors" (Richard Heller Gallery, LA, 2007), "Buried" (Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden 2007), and "Size Matters: XS" (Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY 2007).