Art from a Humanist Perspective


Through my art, as well as my teaching, I explore the ambiguities of human experience. Featuring sites in my (often maligned) city of Vallejo, CA, these works may address certain social and economic realities. However, these are also psychological sites, where the internal and external meet.


Representation

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

Exhibition with Wynne Hayakawa, June 15 - July 29, 2011





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 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.