artist statement

My work is informed by social apathy, vintage television sitcoms, tourist trap souvenirs and revisionist American history. I am drawn to things that are both lovable and pitiable, and I am concerned with creating art that examines the space in between.

I am fascinated and repulsed by our culture’s obsession with the hastily-crafted and disposable. Unauthorized, bootleg versions of things are far more intriguing to me than the official objects. By utilizing imagery harvested from our culture’s leftovers, I aim to exploit territory where the insincere and the sincere might overlap.

I work often with printmaking techniques because I appreciate their inherently unpredictable nature, and I view the process itself as something of a phantom collaborator.