Art from a Humanist Perspective


Through my art, as well as my teaching, I explore the complexities of the human experience. As representational imagery, these spaces inevitably address social, economic, and political realities. However, these are also psychological sites, where the internal and external meet.


Representation

Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco: http://www.asgallery.com/



Artist’s Statement

I celebrate the plain and direct, the integrity of structures and spaces laid bare—an analogue for intellectual honesty and ethical purpose. I admire these unyielding, quiet fixtures, stubbornly rooted in uncelebrated spaces.

These places are also slipping by degrees. They are here, but their presence remains ambiguous. My presence is also conflicted-- I attempt to linger, but rush along. I am compelled to engage, but would also gladly retreat. I celebrate revelation, but ensure that much remains unseen.

These places sometimes beckon, and sometimes keep the viewer at a distance. The buildings stand like figures in a landscape, suggesting the disquieting intersection of inside and outside, private and public, the acknowledged and the othered. They exist for me as sites for dialectical engagement and personal reconnaissance.




Personal Philosophy

I celebrate humble but emphatic skepticism, the desire for discovery, and the power of conscience.

I oppose the suppression of inquiry, and the exaltation of unquestioning faith at the expense of reason and liberty.