I found a dead deer on eBay. I wondered if the person I bought it from was the one who killed it. Of course, I do not ask.  It does not matter anymore as I cut holes into it. The holes show bits of an image. The images refer to acts of violence that have occurred in America by white males. I respond to the cut-out compositions by doing my best to mix and match the colors within it. I try and match the violence. It is impossible. By combining material, image and paint, the viewer is confronted with the work and then forced to make opinions based on their relationships with the materials used. I want to show the surface as a symbol, of the history and the brutality of the American white male, through the scope of conceptual painting.

I am an artist living and maintaining a studio in Connecticut; close enough to New York to dive frequently off the deep end into the vagaries of the art world, but distant enough to enable a life of bucolic scenery, complete with a Dog and Pony Show. I grew up as a self-professed "political firebrand" (despite politically indifferent parents who eked out working-class livings) and early on explored issues of inequality, the waging of war and financial disparity. These motifs continue in my work to this day, with the near collapse of our economy and the insane criminality of the 45^th Non-President providing further fodder for my studio investigations. I trust- perhaps in vain- that my art practice will help to correct the wrongs so manifestly present in the world today, but I am not holding my breath.

All of my work is intensively hand-made: I am my own third-world sweat shop. I sew as a meditative practice, the individual stitches referencing any variety of art mark-making as well as the persistent notion of sewing as women’s work. I explore the uneasy relationship between the physical beauty of my work with the (sometimes) uncomfortable messages I am presenting. I call pieces from my fabric series “PSAs” (Public Service Announcements) as I see my role as an artist/activist to remind people of their duty to participate in our endangered democracy.