Acrobats
These two paintings use instructional manuals for young men as source material. By obscuring some of the text the narrative gets a bit queer.
Airports
These digital illustrations are created from appropriated imagery of airport layouts from across the US. By re-organizing them into strange configurations, they remind me of experiences I’ve had during air travel. Limited signed prints
Places
Places is a series of paintings exploring recollections of important places from my youth: Los Angeles, The Valley, San Francisco, and Rechovot, Israel. I’ve combined appropriated imagery with original drawings to create narratives. Personal narrative is a starting point for the source material, but I hope viewers find their own narrative within the completed images.
Good Boyscouts
I’m often interested in examples of how men are trained from a very early age to become masculine. The Boy Scout Manual contains numerous ways for young men and boys to judge, measure, and practice masculinity. These works contain images and text that are appropriated from the Boy Scouts Manual, and map my recollections of [...]
Maps
A series of mixed media paintings completed in 2007, the Map Series is a re-mapping of memories of travel in and around Southern California as well as between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Freeworks
Freeworks are a series of drawings completed in 2005. Drawing upon memories of travel and loss, I hope to capture the space in between here and there.