Figurative
My primary work is figurative and rooted in Expressionism, drawing inspiration from artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, and Cy Twombly. Influenced by the visual immediacy of street art, Naïve Art, and Pop Art, I use bold color, loose gestural mark-making, assertive line work, and mixed media processes to construct layered, emotionally charged compositions. Through fragmented and psychologically tense representations of the male figure, I explore masculinity, desire, intimacy, vulnerability, and human connection through the lens of my experience as a gay man. The male form remains central to my practice—often distorted, compressed, or emotionally charged—as a means of examining both personal and collective experiences of identity, selfhood, and belonging.
Animals
I continue to explore masculinity through the physical presence and symbolic weight of animal forms. Rendered with a heightened sense of realism, structure, and detail, these figures maintain an expressive, layered quality that connects them to my broader practice. The animals are depicted outside of their natural environments, positioned against raw, abstract surfaces informed by urban textures and gestural mark-making.
Abstracts
Through abstract painting, I explore texture, accumulation, and transformation through sustained engagement with the canvas. Working with acrylic, oil, collage, and plaster, I build surfaces through thin washes, pours, drips, and stains of paint that are repeatedly reworked as the image evolves through a balance of intention and material unpredictability. As layers accumulate and erode, color, gesture, and texture emerge through direct physical interaction with the surface as it dries. The palette and material sensibility draw from a masculine register, expressed through earth tones, rusted hues, and mineral-based colors associated with industrial landscapes and natural elements, forming compositions that hold an emotional language rooted in atmosphere, memory, and physical sensation.