As I began to establish my own practice after graduation from college I started to work through series in various media. Drawing from various currents in modernist art history I was exploring ways to combine figurative, surrealist and abstract ideas into a contemporary aesthetic. I was highly influenced by early Twentieth Century European Modernist Abstraction, esp Picasso and his slide into the Neo-classic, Klee and Debuffet and their direct, honest, even brutal primitivism, the Surrealist idea of "automatic" drawing as a way to access the subconscious, and contemporary critical theory (Jimmy Durham et al) surrounding colonialism, the Gaze, and the critique of 20th century totalitarianisms.
Graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper. Hand made re-claimed redwood frame.