My paintings look for a place where artifice and "the Natural" can co-exist. I observe colors in my everyday life, from the plastic goods piled high in a 99-cent store to the pastels of the late afternoon sky. I compress natural forms with synthetic, eye-popping colors in densely layered surfaces. These combinations mirror our 21st century world in which objects of popular culture juxtapose with ‘the natural." Through abstract gestures, cartoon references and Pop aesthetics I wish to evoke a new sense of "the natural."
