No Place Like Home, Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
Eyes, Graphite, 50 x 38 inches
Benjamins (Get a Job), Graphite, 30 x 30 inches
In the studio, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Bushwick Claw Machine, Graphite, 50 x 50 inches
Bushwick Guest Book, Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
NYC Trash (Dirty Unicorn), Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
Wig in the Weeds, Graphite, 50 x 66 inches
Dandelion Hair, Graphite, 50 x 50 inches
Tony's Slice, Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
Hello, Lionel, Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
Smile Close (Relax), Graphite, 22 x 22 inches
Exhibition install at Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA, 2015
Dream Bigger, Graphite, 38 x 38 inches
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
2014- 2016
No Place Like Home” fuses elements of realism with the language of contemporary art and street culture. The images are drawn from scenes I found in my daily life while walking the streets of Brooklyn. They are inspired by marks people have left on the city: discarded objects, wheatpaste posters, and graffiti. In the ever changing, gritty landscape of New York, one moment in time is captured. Like a collaboration with the city, my voice joins the layered conversation of street art and culture.
Fragments of paper and posters are depicted, referencing the flatness of drawing, while simultaneously alluding to the history of realism and tromp l’oeil. The works explore the language of drawing by superimposing traditional portraiture with a wide variety of seemingly spontaneous and ephemeral-style marks. Suggestions of spray paint, stencils, and drips are illustrated in the drawings. Illusionistic representation of graffiti dissolves into my brush work and the materiality of graphite.