In my artwork, I seek to reconcile pop culture’s adventurous promise with the realities of the world around me. I use the style and visual vocabulary of cartoons to question and lampoon consumer culture.
Readers identify with my work because it speaks the language of our collective, mass-media-constructed childhood memories. Like many people, before I could read I knew Bugs Bunny, Batman, and Snoopy. And today, like those viewers, I live in a complex world of race and gender roles, politics and religion, suburban isolation and the confusion of middle age. In my artwork, I bring these realities to bear on the once-safe world of escapist entertainment and attempt to understand the values of the world around me through India ink, steel pen nibs, sable-hair brushes, and pixels.
