I’m interested in putting people or objects in places where you don’t expect to see them. Figures depicted realistically, but painted amongst imagined, sometimes minimal or graphic spaces. My most recent body of work is focused on addressing American masculinity. In order for the societal view of the roles of women to be broadened, a more encompassing definition of what it means to “be a man” must tangentially occur. In this series of works, I am putting men where women overwhelmingly tend to live: as subjects in a figurative painting. Women are inordinately depicted in paintings. By instead putting men in the canvas, I am pushing to balance out who tends to be the subject of objectification, and offer women the ability to move more freely in places we expect to see men.
