Stuck Series

On feeling stuck

These paintings were part of a series of works created during a period of time when I was grappling with the question of whether or not to continue painting (particularly representational painting). The canvases have a high level of impasto built up from multiple layers of paint being applied and then scraped back out in frustration, and feature ambiguously generic figures that are also stuck, within the center of the canvas and within their depicted environments.

The byproducts of this series (muslin rags and palette scrapings) resulted in a break from painting and a return to producing mainly three dimensional work and performative pieces, beginning with Exorcism