“California Brown Double Tanks”, Oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″
Thursday, April 14, 2016 , 5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture: From Cheese-puffs to China— The expanding notion of the American Landscape
Painters have long considered the wily relationship between natural and human-made forms in the landscape as a reflection of broader cultural values. The built environment is the result of an accumulation of materials, forms and histories, as is the surface of a painting. My investigations have taken me on site-visits throughout the United States and as far as China to see how the places we live in and the things we use effect local topographies. These visits result in paintings, drawings and sculptures that celebrate and criticize the ever-expanding notion of the American Landscape.
Bio: My art is dedicated to investigating the collision of the natural and built environment in the American landscape through historically anchored and formally complex paintings, drawings and most recently sculptures. I am represented by and have had solo shows at CRG Gallery, New York, NY and Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, most recently with a solo show at CRG Gallery in 2014. I have work in public and private collections. Reviews of solo shows have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, New York Magazine, Modern Painters, Frieze and The Los Angeles Times. I am a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College.
