Burgundy skin, we lost ourselves

First draft of the new painting, roughly 3.5' x 5'

Final Figure Drawing Project

5 hour pose, Charcoal on Paper, 2x3.5

Figurepiece (Boob) painting

This painting started out as a huge portrait of my close friend Becky Hayes, originally named "Girl with her Hookah", Oil on canvas, 5'x7'. About a year after its completion, I arbitrarily decided to revisit this painting, and I've been working back into this piece every now and then ever since. It's called the Boob painting because the best aspect of this, regardless of its stage in development, has consistently been the boob.


Girl with her Hookah, Oil on canvas, 5'x7'

Untitled, 7'x5', Oil on canvas

Queer Identity

I noticed an inherent lack in the art community about gay issues outside of the political and sexual realm, so my work has been transitioning into the development of the gay identity in a social context beyond the realm of media peers and stereotypes. To do so, I've been focusing on individuals in my life and how they've developed a queer self.

I''m making work on how each male identifies themselves as gay. For example, if you were to close your eyes and think of yourself, would anything be considered to be specifically queer? How do you identify yourself as a gay male? If you think about yourself as queer, in a quintessential sense, where are you? what are you doing? what are you smelling? what are you wearing?

This is what i want to create and portray.

Through these portraits I hope to exhibit a sense of how individuals develop their own sense of what it means to be gay in a society where it's not the norm to be queer, and where there is no system or peer guidance for most besides negative extremes and media stereotypes

so, i focus on the atypical gay that doesn't fall into [many] sterotypic roles of the gay male, and try to portray how they feel they are gay, how they've made it a part of their individual, everyday identity.

Figure No.1, Komocut on Pulp Painted Paper, 2x4, 2010

Figure No.1(2), Komocut on Pulp Painted Paper, 2x4, 2010

Bed (2), Woodcut, 4,5x2, 2009

Bed (1), Woodcut, 4.5x2, 2009

Portrait Painting

Screenprints

Fluidity No.4, Screenprint, 12"x12", 2009

Untitled No. 1, Screenprint, 2x4, 2009

Untitled No. 2, Screenprint, 2x4, 2009


Lionfish No.1, Screenprint, 14"x11", 2009


Lionfish No.2, Screenprint, 14"x11", 2009


Guanyin No.2 (1/5), Screenprint, 10"x 15", 2009


Guanyin No.2 (3/5), Screenprint, 10"x 15", 2009


Guanyin No.1 (1/6), Screenprint, 7"x 15", 2009

Lemons, Screenprint, 15"x20", 2007

Fluidity

This series deals with one's sense of identity, specifically with the fluid changes of self identification and singularity, which is illustrated through abstract representations of water. This series has been revisited over the past couple of years, and is both a theme and a visual motif that has become integrated into most of my other work as well.


Fluidity No.6 (3), Woodblock, 4x4, 2009


Fluidity No.6 (1), Woodblock, 4x4, 2009


Fluidity No.6 (2), Woodblock, 4x4, 2009


Fluidity No.1 (1), Woodblock, 20"x30", 2009


Fluidity No.2 (1,2,3), Woodblock, each 1.5x7, 2009