I've included several paintings that I've worked on over the last few years.
"If you see something, say something." This my election year art. I've been carrying around this idea for several years - that is to riff on the absurdity of the statement "If you see something, say something." I feel like it's a masturbatory fantasy for all of the security hawks that are out there painting this scary vision of the future. I wanted to embody that in old 50s cartoon wolf drooling over a woman in her burka, seeing through to a bandolier of T-N-T. With the emergence of Trump, it was a natural progression of this idea to target his xenophobic, misogynist, and racist messages.
"Ian Surfaces" is a painting from photograph, that attempts to capture the liquidity of a pool surface.
"Koi Pond" is a nod to M.C. Escher's "Three Worlds." The shadow box shows 3 distinct layers: that of the surface (plexiglass), the swimming fish and leaf (watercolor), and the pond bottom (also watercolor).
"Ma Belle Etoile et Son Chien" is a painting from photograph. Again, watercolor.
