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The Goliath Room
Superman Blue
American Ghosts
The Holiest Place On Her Clothes
Self Endanger
Something Soft And Universally Appealing
Bugs In The South Pacific
Royalty Without A Sovereign
100 Rules To Live By
Buzzed But Not Fed
SIK ALEATORIK

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SIK ALEATORIK

April 10-12, 2014
Gallery 1010, Knoxville, Tennessee


Artist’s statement from show opening
I identify as a photographer and a painter, but I attach neither of these labels to my work. Though both media are essential to my practice, I am not using either one of them to reflect the other. The imagery I am working with simply requires the use of both. 

In the car I am able to achieve clarity in observation because driving demands it of me. There is no room for abstract thoughts and emotions to disrupt the flow between my body and my actions. 

The spaces in the works are inaccessible; reflections, shadows, tricks of light, dilapidated signs and forgotten objects that are further removed from any specific place, context or circumstance when painted. 

My painting process is reactive but thoughtful, and allowing time for contemplation between moves gives my subjects a chance to be realized. However, as I look into my subjects, searching for meaning, they stare back at me and ask for it in return. My work and I are asking the same urgent question of each other, and neither of us has any answer. 




Top to bottom, left to right.
  1. WORP, 2014, oil on canvas
  2. Rainstick, Rainstick, 2013, oil on 37 layers of gesso on canvas
  3. Just Like That Peak Next To Machu Picchu, 2014, oil and graphite on canvas stretched over panel
  4. A Trap For Overthinkers, 2014, oil and window screen mesh on panel
  5. The Place I Dislike, Have You Been?, 2013, oil, graphite, pastel, frosted mylar and T-pin on canvas
  6. Spyhopping, 2014, oil on canvas stretched over panel
  7. Miss Spiritual Tramp Of 1948, 2014, oil and graphite on panel
  8. Tall King, 2014, oil and graphite on canvas
  9. 2:1:2:3, 2014, acrylic and oil on canvas
  10. American Ghost #03, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
  11. American Ghost #22, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
  12. American Ghost #13, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
  13. American Ghost #19, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
  14. American Ghost #05, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
  15. American Ghost #08, 2012, digital inkjet print mounted on foam board
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