Evil Baby Bully Part Object Paintings

There is an ease in having a simple standard procedure to start a painting, however restricting the process may be. Unlike the Cage Paintings, quality isn’t an issue with the cardboards; he needs no restraint. Good, bad, front, back, it doesn’t totally matter.

Now, with the decision to mount and frame the pieces, there is always another secret painting just on the other side; two completely different worlds on a paper-thin object. You can’t experience both ideas simultaneously. The pieces aren’t ever truly finished, their meaning isn’t fixed. They are abject and beautiful and the surface is seductive and pictorial, with a sense of timelessness in the very timed thing. These are not just good or bad for bad’s sake, there is a true effort to make meaning from nothing.

Excerpts from the MIER Gallery exhibition press release, 2016.