RESIST Portraits

I started the RESIST Portrait Series as a more productive reaction to my habit of constantly questioning what we value and what actually matters to us. With figuration as the foundation, each piece is a marker for the effort in striving to rip apart false facades or share how the world could be if we open our hearts and minds to possibility. Portrait is used not in terms of only displaying the likeness of person’s head and shoulders but in the concentrated focus of engaging the viewer with the subject. Through texture, selective development, and abstraction, the mixed media executions utilize a variety of painting techniques to explore temporal dimensions where traces of the past, present, and future exist simultaneously in each composition. The intention is to create work that facilitates space for thoughtful moments, to challenge, or even give pause for beauty and fellowship in dark times.