Statement

I am a figurative painter and printmaker. My works involve narratives, depicting figures situated in some interior space, usually human-made but inhuman environments. I am interested in space and composition, especially in the interaction of the organic shapes of figures with the architectural structures of their surroundings, as well as with the edge of the pictorial space.

The juxtaposition of individual humans and cold industrial structures imparts a sense of claustrophobia, alienation, repression, or even depression that one suffers living in the postmodern world. Figures in my works find themselves in spaces (such as public bathrooms and elevators) where the private confronts the public, where the isolated room provides moments of solitude and security to them, only for them to realize that their privacy is uncomfortably shared by others. In contrast to the alienated individuals as my subjects, the narrative structures of my works often allude to Western mythology and literature, thus producing a comical effect via the contradiction between the tradition of metanarrative and the postmodern void of collective meaning.