Artist's Statement
Inspired by photos and clippings gathered from flea markets, thrift shops and yard sales from years of road travels throughout the American Midwest and Southland, as well as rustled from the dusty underbelly of my parents' basement, these paintings play with the fuzzy line between true personal memory and the deeply embedded pop culture iconography of family. Drawing from the sincere inventions of Folk artists, the kitsch playfulness of the Chicago Imagists and the heartfelt/heartbreaking portraiture of Alice Neel and Diane Arbus, "I Remember You" strives to evoke the awkward nature and psychological complexities of the family snapshot as well as the distortion that comes through the lens of time in our Technicolor cultural landscape.