Interpreting faces and figures is a very fundamental part of being human. We all spend countless hours studying the people around us and because of this, anyone who looks at a portrait, no matter what their education or background, has an instinctual understanding of what small changes in expression and proportion might signify. Because of these primal reactions, I believe portraits have a unique power as an art form. My paintings use simple compositions, often over multiple panels with repeated elements, that allow the familiar form of the human face and body to take center stage. I try to combine traditional techniques and labor intensive processes, with pixelated imagery and saturated colors. The paintings celebrate quirks of our current aesthetics; which future generations will look back on with the kind of nostalgia we currently feel for film grain and crackling records. In many cases, each color within the subject's skin tones is pulled to the surface and allowed to create chaotic patterns within the boundaries of the subject's body. From there, small distortions and slightly exaggerated characteristics invite the viewer to allow their own anxieties and desires to define the piece.

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