Fashion spreads and advertisements aim to seduce through a pageant of avant-garde textures, color and form. While the substance that makes up these images can be all together attractive and effective, the initial life and process used to produce them is trapped beneath their glossy finish.
Fascinated by this loss of vivacity and seduced by the industry, my work actively sprays, drags, pours, smears, and sprinkles materials to reintroduce energy back to the surface. Through a mixture of glitters, flock, cosmetics and play with paint application, my paintings necessitate a physicality that both charms and snubs. Broken up into pieces and color fields, the figure is dissolved of its identity leaving behind a focus on its pose. The result is a dirty glamour that invites a dialogue between the reality of the fashion shoot and the idealized fashion shot.
