ARTIST STATEMENT

I’ve been drawing and painting since my youth and my work has been both representational and abstract/nonobjective.  With the advent of the personal computer, I began to create art digitally. Artistic software and the technique of layering are used to produce works that are varied in terms of their texture, pattern, image and impact. I view my work as somewhat expressionistic, somewhat iconoclastic and on occasion political.  Periodically I find inspiration for my work from images from the internet, movies and personal photographs, altering and then incorporating these images into my work. Images that often invoke an emotional connection. Over the past few years I’ve shifted my life focus from academics and educational endeavors to that of creating art and printmaking. Specifically I’ve combined the processes of screen-printing with that of digital printing to produce a final piece.