I began painting in earnest in 1996 after
reading Henry Miller's inspired passage on Henri Matisse in Tropic of
Cancer. While studying computer science at Montana State University - Bozeman,
I used a bedroom in an old farmhouse as a makeshift studio,
combining instruction from university art courses with independent
experimentation as an avenue into making art. I moved to the Bay
Area in the fall of 2000, and currently live with my wife
and two daughters near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
My paintings are influenced by digital technology,
and by the tools used to understand, create and interact with that
technology. They are an investigation of what happens to the meaning
of basic symbols when they are fractured, dissolved, repeated and
reassembled. Symbols that we barely notice in our daily routines take
on new significance when they are pulled from their mundane
context and used in an unexpected analog setting.
I am now in the process of learning to use various printing techniques to create smaller works on paper.
