I am a painter draftsman and writer from Los Angeles California. I studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in the spring of 2016. After moving to Philadelphia, I have painted almost entirely on repurposed canvases from Resource Exchange. This has been fantastic, as stretching and preparing canvases can be a lengthy, labor intensive process and materials can be very expensive when purchased new. There has also been the added and unexpected benefit of having content already on the canvas when I begin a painting. Though the subject of the painting is always altered, I find myself responding to, and sometimes keeping, the colors and shapes existent on the canvas I have purchased. I have also used RE to find source images that have translated in various ways into the content of my paintings.
I am interested in the ground between the fields of abstraction and landscape. These two, though it might seem counterintuitive, have a long history of dialogue together. So we learn that historical context in responsible for our drastically different reading of these two separate bodies of work, but also that the evolution of painting has transcended perceived boundaries between their respective styles.