I paint familiar places that do not exist.  American landscapes, constructed from imagination, architecture, infrastructure, vehicles, fences, walls, signs, and graffiti. My work is meant to be immediately accessible, yet reveal meaning as the viewer keeps looking. I want the viewer to have a sense of recognition, then begin to wonder what happened there. 

My paintings examine the psychological residue embedded within contemporary American landscapes. Using realism as a method rather than an end, I construct spaces where architectural fragments, barriers, obsolete infrastructure and acts of repair become metaphors for systems of control, memory and impermanence. Familiar environments are transformed into ambiguous psychological spaces in which absence can carry as much weight as presence. Precision and disruption exist simultaneously, inviting viewers to reconsider the overlooked structures that shape everyday experience.  

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