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My newest images are built through an exploration of contemporary imagery and architectural representation. In my earlier work the expression of subject matter is strait-forward and bold. My recent work is elliptical and the expression of the subject is quieter. I am aware that the conflict between industrial and natural environment needs to enter the process forming my aesthetic. One could think about the heroine of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Red Desert or the famous collection of Donald Judd’s work in Marfa Texas. I feel the urgency to respond to these conflicts from the position of an artist that belongs to a different generation. In this work the critical use of images of consumer icons, logos, and strip-mall architecture has been replaced by the forms resembling architectural American minimalism: reduction and repetition replace uniqueness and diversity.
My solo exhibition titled Inter-Glacial Free Trade Agency examined the relationship between governments and corporations through the guise of a trade show. Here I focused specifically on the end products being marketed to the public; fashionable survival gear in the event we are thrust back into an ice age as a result of global warming. All items were branded with the same logo convincing the viewer that in the ‘new world’ there is only one choice.
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