My recent body of work concerns the idea of what might lie between or beyond irony and sincerity. It seems that in our present culture, irony has become no more than a screwball body wash advertisement, and sincerity a pet adoption commercial meant to guilt trip you into catharsis. Just as these ideas have been prominent in society and popular culture, they have become a recurring theme in contemporary painting.

I have addressed the question using personal narratives, family stories, and the conversations of passersby. I am interested in the structuring of stories and the restructuring that takes place as they are retold. My paintings manifest these ideas by providing a disjunctive narrative in which myths and anecdotes reflect the dysfunctional harmony of beauty and brutality in the everyday.