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I am interested in the natural world and how we view it through the lens of our culture. I have painted pastoral and urban landscapes of New England, California, and New York City. I have also worked with natural history subjects such birds and flowers and undersea environments. Additional subjects include dogs that I walk as a volunteer in a New York City shelter. My most recent work depicts ambiguous encounters between animals and humans that result from the collision of the natural world with our technological conquest of it. The paintings have a humorous, ironic cast but are also disturbing. In my paintings, contemporary events provide the tableau for specific animal encounters that I imagine. I collect images of ecological subjects from newspapers, books, magazines and my own experience and place them in contexts that I think are provocative and poignant. I see myself in the tradition of American landscape painting. My work references Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer in particular. From my contemporary vantage point, I like using the vocabulary of late 19th and early 20th century painting—with its flat, sensuous paint application--to tell a disturbing story. A second aspect of my work is public art, in which my paintings are fabricated for permanent installation in public spaces using materials such as mosaic. My commissions include a series of mosaic murals commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the Houston Street subway station in Manhattan, a suite of roundels for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Terminal at the Port of Miami, and outdoor artwork for Garfield Avenue Station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System in Jersey City for New Jersey Transit. I am currently designing public artwork for an animal shelter and veterinary clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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