My studio investigations reflect interest in contemporary abstract painting and popular culture. I work freely with viscous painterly/expressionistic bravado. Frenzied gestural cursive and flowing brush strokes mesh and suppress close-up head shot images of popular icons. Caresses of pigment gives the work a compulsive and energetic dimension of excess.

A rich and extremely varied palette evokes luxuriance, creating shallow pictorial space and painting surfaces that are heroic celebrations of our modern culture. My painting style is analogous to my subject matter - heroic in scale, physical, and musical. The dots and swirls comprising the image are analogous to notes, riffs, and layers creating a song. They also echo moments in a game of sport with bright movement, quick action and decision. The culmination, whether athletic or artistic, is a finished performance.