New Monuments
Artist Statement
New Monuments
A premier solo exhibition of twelve paintings presented at Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York City, NY 2019.
Employing paint, collage and silkscreen these still life paintings are both evocative and dystopian. Caught between yesterday and tomorrow, these signs and symbols lose their significance and become nothing more than ornamentation, like the flora around them: a visual statement indicative of painting now in the post-Internet age.
Recalling early computer graphics, the recesses and shelves in these paintings simultaneously dictate illusionistic space while flattening it. This convention, built through linear perspective and its repetition, is diagrammatic and easily-accepted. Further, it serves as the architecture holding the composition together despite the clutter of disparate elements. Selected and safe-guarded, the objects are left to wait for a time when they can be taken down and revered once more.
Through freehand painting, masking with tape and contact paper, silkscreening or simply painting on the surface, the objects in these paintings are imbued with a life of their own by a complex approach to rendering.