Homage embodies my confrontation and immersion in the behavior of images—the orphaning, co-opting, and versioning actions within their flattened hierarchy of our image-showing and sharing environment. I seek out iconic works of art and painterly gestures, human mark-making, and universal visual symbols such as flowers and natural forms that are constellated, shifted and decontextualized but remain identifiable through the indexical grain of photography. I abstract the digital process of continuous translation and transformation across platforms, tailoring software programs coded to iterate my “found” imagery into elaborate and visually complex “canvases.”
I use digital programs as physical tools - distorting, assembling, layering, feathering, and scaling function as my paintbrushes. The found imagery is my paint. This process deliberately reintroduces creative strategies of chance, subjective response and even physical gesture that cut against the conventional idea that we assign to the dynamic of algorithmic processes. I pay homage to the enduring capacities of photography as a medium fueled equally by inherent indexicality and creative happenstance, even from within the shifting expanse of our image environment.
Face It, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 43" x 36", 2017.
8102, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 46" x 80", 2017.
Homage (Endless Bummer), dye sublimation print on aluminum, 48" x 90", 2017.
Homage Diptych 1002, dye sublimation print on Aluminum, 36" x 36" ea., 2017.
1027 (Latent Love), dye sublimation print on aluminum, 34" x 76", 2018.
Homage Noir et Blanc (Diptych), dye sublimation prints on aluminum, 27" x 30" ea., 2018.
Homage 7854a (Dead End), dye sublimation print on aluminum, 40" x 72", 2018.
Homage 5444, pigment print on canvas, 30" x 105", 2018.
Homage 2011, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 40" x 72", 2017.
HJAF7874, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 43" x 36", 2017.
Homage 8310 Roses Are Red (Diptych), pigment prints on canvas, 33" x 40" ea., 2018.
Homage 3334, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 30" x 90", 2018.
Homage 7867 (Diptych), dye sublimation prints on aluminum, 30" x 30" ea., 2018.
Homage 0023 (Le Temps des Fleurs), pigment print on canvas, 72" x 44", 2017.
Homage Mural 1025 (Treading Water), pigment print on canvas, 30" x 30" ea., 2018.
Homage 1010, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41" x 76", 2018.
Homage 5775A, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 40" x 60", 2017.
Homage 1005 Black Rose 2, pigment print on canvas, 48" x 48", 2018.
Untitled 7867 Diptych, dye sublimation prints on aluminum, 36" x 36" ea., 2018.
1009 (Torn), pigment print on canvas, 60" x 37", 2018.
4226 (Awkward Beautiful), dye sublimation print on aluminum, 48" x 76", 2017.
4562 (Upstream), pigment print on canvas, 2018, 30" x 30" ea.
8434 (Le Bonheur), dye sublimation print on aluminum, 42” x 76”, 2018.
9875, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 40" x 30", 2018.
2020, pigment print and acrylic on canvas, 72" x 36", 2018.