In my paintings, drug bottles and other pharmaceutical paraphernalia are blown up at times to a monumental size, often for an almost architectural effect. The paintings are analytical, cool and formal: issues of color and shape are made paramount, as I render the forms with little sweetening. At times visually blunt, the works ask the viewer to reevaluate what they think they know about these objects visually and, secondarily, their functions as tools for well-being.

My series of small drawings entitled “The Phantom Limb Series” explores the ideas of health and sickness with a far more emotional tenor. Each drawing consists of a headless figure often in some state of physical / psychological distress: limbs and extremities are often disjointed, enlarged, exaggerated in a kind of map of spiritual crisis and overlaid with cold random-seeming numbers and codes. There is a yearning for wholeness and unity expressed in these drawings, a gnostic grasping for knowledge that speaks of a (possible) transcendence beyond the pain and disorder.