Lucky Strike

“Ground Zero”,
Is a 127cm(h) x 150cm(l), Pen & Ink drawing completed in 2006.
This is based on my love/hate relationship with shopping malls, big box retailers such as Wal-mart and our rampant consumerism. The title re fers to the controversy over the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.

“Mall Oasis”
Is a 72.5cm(h) x 127cm(l) Pen & Ink drawing completed in 2006
This is a commentary on our shopping mall culture and how, as William Severini Kowinski wrote in The Malling of America, we are chain-storing, buying and “retail therapizing” ourselves to death.

Philosophy

The subject matter of my paintings, drawings and sculptures ranges from
commentary on rampant consumerism to our fascination with food and
eating. The use of an active line is important to me. I see color as another line –a thicker or thinner line. The edgy line works well for me in conveying my interest in entropy and its consequent cycle of construction and destruction. This could be an object, a city, the body politic or physical space. In my paintings or drawings, line is a means by which the organic and the inorganic merge to create representations—in some cases, bordering on caricatures—of people and objects. In my three-dimensional pieces, my line work and use of color still distinguish the work while adding a new element—literally, space and time. These elements work in unison to tell a story that is both complex and compelling.