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McDonalds, Vienna, Austria, 38 x 48in., Oil on Canvas, 2007

The British Fleet at Heathrow, 42 x 56in., Oil on Canvas, 2007

Times Square, NYC, 57 x 61in., Oil on Canvas, 2007

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Trading Games I, 32 x 42in., Screen Print on Canvas, 2007

Cahuenga Pass, El Camino Real, Los Angeles, 48 x 53in., Oil on Canvas, 2007

Interchange, 48 x 48in., Oil on Canvas, 2007

 

A System of Collision

Zooming through life, we do not stop to see where we are. We forget that we are part of a global exchange. The freeway, the airport, the line at McDonald’s. We trust that everything will keep us moving. In common places, at regular times, we run into each other. Upon impact, culture is created. Are you the participant or the observer?
The next time you are stuck in traffic, you decide.

New Work

Food Chain: America’s Grocery Store

Food Chain, the painting, pays homage to living in a surplus of food options; one more flashy and visually enticing than the next. The Supermarket leaves no practical necessity or desire for human sustenance unavailable for purchase. We all enter with the intent to sustain ourselves, yet rarely acknowledge that this juncture in time, with our food in the checkout line…We are at a vital crossroads of American Life and culture.