This portfolio brings together selected earlier works that relate to concerns I am now returning to in a new body of work. These paintings and studies reflect my long engagement with the figure, masculinity, self-presentation, vulnerability, and the expressive possibilities of paint.
I’m currently developing a new project that builds on some of the formal and symbolic content in these older works while moving in a more personal and expanded direction. That newer work draws on self-portraiture, aging, memory, embodiment, and the emotional and cultural meanings carried by the male figure.
What connects these pieces to the current project is not just subject matter, but structure and method: direct figuration, visible brushwork, distortion, cropped compositions, physical presence, and an interest in how identity can be conveyed through posture, flesh, scale, and paint handling. Some of these older works also contain symbolic or archetypal elements that continue to matter to me as I think through the newer paintings.
I see this portfolio as background and foundation: a record of earlier work that helps clarify where the new body of work is coming from and what it is beginning to become.
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