RIDING HIGH ON THE HOBBY HORSE
“Hobby Horse” comes from the French colloquial term for DaDa. The serious playfulness of this type of work is appealing to me. I was trained as a traditional photographer for many years. I soon found myself moving toward the insular and subconscious within the artwork that distances itself from photography, but definitely references it. I attempt to cut with sharp wit and humor, layers of deep self-reflections and anxieties about my place in it all. I want the viewer to leave with not what they saw in this exhibition but what they didn't.
'Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted.'
--Max Ernst
“Hobby Horse” comes from the French colloquial term for DaDa. The serious playfulness of this type of work is appealing to me. I was trained as a traditional photographer for many years. I soon found myself moving toward the insular and subconscious within the artwork that distances itself from photography, but definitely references it. I attempt to cut with sharp wit and humor, layers of deep self-reflections and anxieties about my place in it all. I want the viewer to leave with not what they saw in this exhibition but what they didn't.
'Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted.'
--Max Ernst
SKETCH OF MY GREAT UNCLE (Installation view), 2013
FIFTY SELF PORTRAITS IN A PAPER BAG:10 years of my life (installation view), 2013
BRAIN AND NERVES (Installation view), 2013
THREE SELF NON-PORTRAITS (Installation view), 2013