System of Objects reflects my focus on creating multifaceted compositions that draw on a range of sources. Through my use of portrait fragments from magazines and the internet, I layer and combine them with hand-painted details to create striking figurative amalgams on paper and canvas that allude to the politically charged approaches of Cubist collage and Dada Photomontage movements.
As an artist, I believe that art is not static but constantly evolving, undergoing a shift in position with respect to the border with reality. My art is in a state of perpetual becoming, and I aim to explore the artificial dichotomies between abstraction, rationality, geometry, modernism, and representation, emotion, intuition, and romanticism. My works reflect a refined spatial knowledge and sensibility that subverts the familiar, featuring minimalist amorphous shapes, semi-symmetric patterns, and bright, blazing colors that function like fragments or syllables of an unintelligible code.
My works draw inspiration from common consumer goods such as dye, bleach, sailing canvas, and caulking to create large canvases in rhythmic patterns constructed of hundreds of individual parts. The mechanically repetitive works I create demystify artistic production and reject the painterly conventions of passion, expressivity, and spontaneity. These works draw inspiration from ubiquitous framed pictures and memorabilia in domestic settings, yet their signifiers are devoid of any reference.
Through reproducing artworks used as props on TV and blurring them into abstraction, my works represent neither image nor "content," only the mere idea of "art" or any framed picture hanging on a wall. My works explore the ideas of copy and original and how they come to be valued, artifacts from archaeological and natural history museums, and collective modes of making. Ultimately, my aim is to examine the methods of collecting and the ways artworks accrue visibility, meaning, and value.
