After nearly two decades as a photographer, I’ve honed and sharpened a style that focuses on geometry and precision; everything in the frame is where it should be and nothing is extraneous. Even as the aesthetic has changed, the adherence to shape, form, and simplification has remained.

However, when you do something for long enough the things that define you can also begin to trap you. Your style becomes a crutch rather than something you push off from. You long for the early days of your practice when you tried things simply because you didn’t know any better; trying, failing, and experimenting purely for experimentation’s sake.

Oil painting has become an exercise in deprogramming these self-imposed rules, and a training mechanism for seeing the world fresh without the proxy of a camera lens. Each piece is a snapshot of a simple object seen during daily walks after the onset of motion aftereffect—a visual illusion of movement experienced after viewing moving visual stimuli for a time, and then fixating on something stationary.

While still highly photographic, these paintings are an opportunity to embrace spontaneity and improvisation. They are the artifacts of a process in stepping outside the lines that have for many years dictated the boundaries of my work.

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We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night and sharing this exciting new collection with you.

The show will also be open from 1—5pm on Saturday and Sunday, and by appointment through the end of May.

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Viewfindings opening reception

Friday May 12th
4—7pm
536 Davis St, San Francisco

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Thank you to our [working] partners at EQ Office who have helped make this project possible.