Objects of Desire
This new series of paintings explores my relationship with technology and identity, while creating ambiguous narratives for the viewer to explore.
Physical Therapy
While completing treatment for a herniated disk in my neck, I completed these four paintings as a way of regaining strength in my hands again. The images are appropriated from instructional manuals for keeping in good physical shape. Removed from their instructions, the figures were placed to interact with the frame of the image.
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.
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.