Artist's Statement

I am drawn to people who reveal a double personality- a mix on innocence and a darker side. Painting subjects of this sort creates a challenge that reveals as much about my own psychology as it does that of my subjects - who happen to be my friends. As part of a generation of painters who came of age in New York City, my paintings explore a range of personas from innocence to subtly perverse that my subjects employ in their daily lives. I see my work as part of an ongoing tradition of revealing psychological portraiture.

Using styrofoam and epoxy, I make frames that replicate 18th century picture frame motifs in an effort to link my work to that tradition.