I first started working with baseball cards within my work when I inherited my Grandfather's collection of trading cards after he passed. It was one way that I found helpful in connecting with him and dealing with his loss in my life because I was working directly with images that belonged to him. I made my own connections to his collection through shape, color, and composition investigations. Within my own studio practice I began to create new visual representations of my subconscious mind. I am extremely attracted to the stylized portraiture of the past that depicts recognizable forms/people through trading card materials. The facial expressions, movements of the body, smiles on the players faces, uniform poses, and the use of props within the images make me giggle as I play with their defined logic through painting.
I look at the work I have made in the past through this honest expression and want to continue to evolve my investigations. I have started making again part-time in Los Angeles. I have started exploring where I left off with this type of making from 2016-2017 when I completed my BFA and showed the begging stages of my investigations with trading cards. I have now started collecting my own sports cards... on my own terms... in Los Angeles, CA from thrift stores and places/spaces in time that hold importance to my life right now. My intentions are set to continue to expand my organic abstraction processes and get back to making. I am concerned with making new nonrepresentational works from representational images on trading cards. In a way, I am presenting visual information as if it is first being seen. Fecundity and metamorphosis are dominant in my work. The 'random nature of things' in my paintings and use of 'chance' are a huge collaborator in what I am creating today.
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11/5/2022 12:20:52 am
Cup on you drive town. Matter full believe play reach.
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