Chicago > Looks Like Grit, Smells Like Chocolate

In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan characterizes the American processed food industry as “The triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution”.

Upon arriving in Chicago in 2007, I considered this line as I walked the streets of my Fulton Market 'hood: Here raw pork became smoked sausage; over there, infinite Chicken McNuggets were turned out 24/7.

I was surrounded by raw material-- trucked and trained in, broken down into its smallest components, re-constituted, transmogrified, rebuilt, and transformed--into shiny, packaged and consumable, cultural commodity.

Chicago seemed a complex and perfect nexus of transitivity: Rich as both metaphor for the provisionality of painting and an experience of the urban sublime.

This work is experiential: about transition from one place to another, cultural juxtaposition, and the collision between raw and refined, familiar and unknowable material.



Big Boi -detail 
2014
oil on canvas
60" X 48"
Untitled (TJX1)
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Untitled (TJX1)-detail
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Untitled (TJX1)-detail2
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Untitled (TJX2)
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Untitled (TJX2)-detail
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Untitled (TJX2)-detail2
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 48"
2013
Freefall
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 60"
2013
Freefall-detail1
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 60"
2013
Freefall-detail2
Oil, digital print, on canvas
48" X 60"
2013
Morph6
ink and brush on digital print
36" X 48"
2012
photo of painting cognitve dissonance
Oil, acrylic, collage on Digital Print
36" X 48"
2012
Morph1
Oil, acrylic, collage on Digital Print 2008-2012
36" X 48"
Morph2
Digital Print
36" X 48"
2010