TRADITION DEATH
TRADITION DEATH aims to highlight and represent the evolution and death of tradition, heritage, subjective moral value, and human-ness through abstract collage on 12x12 cradled wood panels, punctuated by thoughtful titles guiding the audience toward meaning and contemplation.
TRADITION DEATH
Woah…Slavery (2024) | 12'“x12”
Can’t Own Property (2024) | 12'“x12”
Open Carry (2024) | 12'“x12”
TRADITION DEATH
Peking Duck (2024) | 12'“x12”
Bound Feet (2024) | 12'“x12”
US Railroads (2024) | 12'“x12”
PLAYTIME
PLAYTIME is an ongoing project which celebrates hedonism, vanity, memory, vibrancy, and chaos - an attractive and sometimes obscured, star-studded view into the men and women of yesterday. The sourced photos of Playboy and Playgirl’s models of the 1990s are meant to envelop the awareness of fleeting beauty, an experience shared by many when pining for one’s youth. The abstract manipulation of these images expresses varying degrees of one's own togetherness and how it is perceived through physical appearance. ‘Playtime’ serves as a time capsule of exuberance that blends the body with disorder, color, and an occasional unclear form. We live in our skin as it fades with us.
Select pieces from PLAYTIME
Michael Shayne 12.93 (2023) | 24”x24”
Melissa Evridge 8.90 II (2023) | 18”x18”
Adso Williams 03.94 (2023) | 24”x24”
Adam Sorensen 03.92 (2023) | 24”x24”
Cindy Crawford 10.98 (2023) | 24”x24”
Sherilyn Fenn 12.90 II (2023) | 24”x36”
Being Human
Being Human is a commissioned set of pieces that are an abstract expression in some of the feelings of being human; love, hate, acceptance, celebration, and togetherness. All pieces are mixed media on hand-stretched canvas.
untitled 01 (2019) | 24”x24”
untitled 02 (2019) | 24”x24”
untitled 03 (2019) | 24”x24”
Party
Party is series of loneliness and nausea. All pieces are mixed media on hand-stretched canvas.
untitled 01 (2019) | 36”x36”
induced vomiting (2019) | 36”x36”
untitled 02 (2019) | 36”x36”
untitled 03 (2019) | 36”x36”
untitled 04 (2019) | 36”x36”
Exhibitions
WHAT KINDA BROWN ARE YOU?
Gallery of Contemporary Arts at Ent Center for the Arts
July thru October 2024
PLAYTIME
Disruptor Gallery
November 2023
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
September 2023
The Mezzanine at COATI
August 2023
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
April 2023
Goat Patch Brewery
March 2023
Memories Pt II
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
January 2023
Memories
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
September 2022
Double Oh Six
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
September 2022
Party
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
July 2019
Yesteryear
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
July 2018
fury & fury
Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar
October 2018
Previous exhibitions
2015 - 2023
Work showcased exclusively at Shuga’s Restaurant and Bar.
2004 - 2006
Work showcased at several venues in Colorado Springs; Manitou Springs; and Denver, Colorado.