Opening November 5th, 2021
I will be opening an exhibition at Robischon Gallery in Denver in November that I’m calling Altered States. It is a new series that is made up of and inspired by other people’s photographs/memories. The work is reductive in its subject matter and in medium. Enlarged anonymous photographs combined with substrates of color and simple patterns. Although painting is my fundamental choice for two-dimensional works, I wanted these to be un-painterly. I wanted to boil it down to just enough information to get the point across and then walk away, leaving the evidence of the idea. But what is the point? They are stark in some ways, but also invite the viewer in for a conversation. Although I have my alibis and ideas, I don’t really know what they are about. There are different messages presenting themselves. Something about communal memory, something about growing up in white America, lost in the suburbs. They are a little heartbreaking, a little sad, like our memories. But alas there are no answers, just a landscape of wandering souls, like me, like you.