Postcards + Merch
Kaniz
Woman with Green Scarf
Digital print
5 x 3.5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Woman with Pink Scarf
Digital print
5 × 3.5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Woman with One Arm Across
Digital print
5 x 3.5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Woman with Two Palms Down
Digital print
7 × 5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Woman with Two Palms Up
Digital print
5 x 4 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Two Figures in Front of a Vase
Digital print
5 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Fish Biting the Hand
Digital print
4 x 6 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Kaniz
Birds and Flowers
5 x 4 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is by the artist Kaniz.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Women of Hormuz
Woman with Chador Peering From Behind three Blond Women
Digital print
3.5 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center.Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is a collaboration between several artists.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Women of Hormuz
Woman with Chador Peering From Behind Blond Woman
Digital print
3.5 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center.Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is a collaboration between several artists.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Women of Hormuz
Woman with Fish on Her Head
Digital print
5 x 7 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is a collaboration between several artists.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Women of Hormuz
Woman Holding Baby
Digital print
5 x 7 inches
Edition of 10
About Women of Hormuz and Nadalian’s Community Art Center
These postcards are prints of paintings mostly by artists who were not academically trained, organized by Nadalian’s Community Art Center. Nadalian, an artist from the Hormozgan province, lives and works in the south of Iran on the Persian gulf in the Laft port of Qeshm Island. He has been fostering a space for the local community to make art.
This painting is a collaboration between several artists.
The natives of Hormozgan are on the first line of fire and advocating for their art and presenting their way of life illustrated in these paintings brings humanity and a face to what otherwise are statistics and news items.
Peppa
Woman with Child
Digital print
5 x 6 inches
Edition of 10
PAINT by Pedrum Siadatian
Loss For Words
Record
Pedrum Siadatian is a New York based musician, visual artist, and writer. PAINT is his recording/live project that explores outré rock and electronic music. Other projects include THiQ, which is his collaborative dance project with Jackson Macintosh, and Allah-Las, which he is a founding member of. His paintings have been show at Et Al gallery in San Francisco and the CWC in Los Angeles.
PAINT by Pedrum Siadatian
PAINT
Record
Pedrum Siadatian is a New York based musician, visual artist, and writer. PAINT is his recording/live project that explores outré rock and electronic music. Other projects include THiQ, which is his collaborative dance project with Jackson Macintosh, and Allah-Las, which he is a founding member of. His paintings have been show at Et Al gallery in San Francisco and the CWC in Los Angeles.
Limited Editions
Drake R. Reed
Shotspotter Camera Haunting New York City (Color), 2021
Digital print
18.5 × 12.5 inches
Work from different sections in a research process around the military industrial complex and its elusive forms of surveillance through both Silicon Valley and police technology.
Golnar Adili
Qamar, 2023
Linocut print
7 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
Golnar Adili
Forough, 2023
Linocut print
7 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
Golnar Adili
Nasrin Sotoudeh, 2023
Linocut print
7 x 5 inches
Edition of 10
Golnar Adili
Tehran, Bahman, Door Grill, 2023
4 x 5.5 inches
Edition of 2
Original Artworks
Ana Paula Cordeiro
Pathern, 2009
Letterpress on paper, RC photographs
8 x 24 inches open, 8 x 8 inches closed
A set of 06 poetry broadsides that printed by the artist using various relief techniques
Ana Paula Cordeiro makes books by hand, photographs with film, prints from lead type, and writes either sparingly or profusely on unbound folios, which she then proceeds to bind into volumes. In 2018 she co-organized the multi-media installation Introspective Collective. In 2019 she contributed to a book publication about bookmaking called Bookforms. And in 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and an Honorable Mention at the International Human Rights Arts Festival Creators of Justice Award for her essay Citizen.
Originally from Brazil, she is based in Brooklyn and does much of her work at Shoestring Press and The Center for Book Arts communal shops. Chronologically speaking, in the fall of 2020, she had an interview published by The Interior Beauty Salon; in the Summer of 2020, she was part of an online program in conversation with Merve Emre, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, and her work Body of Evidence was reviewed on Books on Books. In 2022 she recorded a podcast for Inwood Art Works On Air.
2023 was a year to wrap up a project as Artist Research Fellow at the Hispanic Society of America, with support from NYSCA, and gratefully enjoy the beauty and space of the Arts Center in Governor’s Island residency, with support from LMCC.
In 2024, she had her first solo show in the US at the Gallatin Galleries, and somehow she was awarded The Governor’s Medal of Arts and Culture during the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations. Ana graduated in 2026 as Dean Scholar for the Arts in the MA program at Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU, with a concentration titled ” The Collective Introspective: How Artist’s Book can Sabotage Patriarchy and Colonialism”.
Fadl Fakhouri
Ovulation, 2026
Inkjet print on paper
4 x 6 inches
Part of a series documenting intimacy and dynamics in photo portraiture of couples, this work features two beloved friends who have recently started dating and are experiencing what is known as the honeymoon phase.
Fadl Fakhouri is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on positionality relative to borders. Fadl has exhibited at San Francisco Art Institute, St.Moritz Art Film Festival, The Poetry Project, The Cincinnati Art Museum, and The Museum of the Moving Image. They hold a BA in Biology from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. They have held positions at Pratt Institute, Sotheby's Institute of Art and Tripwire Journal.
Sunny Sanaz Shokrae
behesht, 2010
Photography
13 x 19 inches
A photo print of the drive up to Shomal
Sunny Sanaz Shokrae is a photographer based in NYC. Sunny creates imagery rooted in authentic storytelling, brought to life through intimate composition and a deep sensitivity to the cultural and emotional layers of her subjects.
Over the course of her career, Sunny has built a body of work that champions people while exploring identity, culture, and intimacy. Her artistic direction is deeply informed by her personal experiences and interests. Whether in portraiture, advertising, fashion or personal work, she centers her subject/s and captures moments of stillness and flux, reflecting a current yet timeless ease and fluidity.
https://www.sunnyshokrae.com/
Maxwell Runko
Untitled (after Daisy Duck), 2026
Woven paper
8.5 x 11 inches
This image is taken from the 1947 Walt Disney cartoon called Donald's Dilemma that depicts Daisy Duck experiencing high levels of emotional distress after Donald experiences a concussion and does not remember her.
Yasmeen Abdallah
2/28/26, 2026
Mixed-media
8 x 11 x 3 inches
2/28/26 is a work dedicated to the martyrs of the heartbreaking and horrific attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School. Created from discarded remnants of children’s art projects and embroidered by a teaching artist in the US, it honors all of the martyrs whose lives were cut short and stolen by the imperialist, genocidal US and Israeli regimes. This is created in loving memory as a tribute to each of those beautiful souls.
Peppa
She Knew There Were Fruit Trees, 2026
Mixed media
26 x 28 inches
This work brings together different materials to explore sensory memories of home and homeland.
Peppa’s interdisciplinary practice weaves together research and remembering processes to uplift intersectional and multicultural identity. Grounded in reclaiming bodily autonomy, she is interested in sharing narratives and building worlds about the body as a homeland– where history, cultural knowledge, and lived experiences are held. Selected exhibitions include the Boston Women’s Film Festival, Future Labs Gallery, Mosaic Art Collective, Schafer Gallery, ArtsWorcester, The Sprinkler Factory, Todd Art Gallery, Out of the Blue Too Gallery, and the Museo Fisiocritici (Siena, Italy). She has presented her art work, research, and teaching practice at the Psychology and the Arts Conference (2022, 2018) and the Arts in Society International conference (2019).
Candice Lin
Cat Demon Comb, 2026
Highfire porcelain
1.25 x 1 x 1/4 inches
A porcelain comb with an image of a cat demon holding her breasts.
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her work deals with the politics of representation and issues of race, gender, and sexuality through histories of colonialism and diaspora.
Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Jameel Arts Center, Dubai; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Canal Projects, New York; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; and Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Lin’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, Prospect.5 Triennial Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, and both the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennales. She is the recipient of the 2024 Ruth Award, the 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among numerous other recognitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.
https://ghebaly.com/artists/candice-lin/
Taraneh Mosadegh
Untitled, 2025
Acrylic on linen over panel
8 x 10 inches
Taraneh Mossadegh (b. 1985, Tehran) is an Iranian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MFA in painting from the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland, and her BFA in painting from the Art University of Tehran.
Mossadegh’s recent collections explore stillness and movement on canvas. Through patterns, gradations, and shades of light, she investigates how subtle shifts in light and pigmentation evoke emotional and spatial depth. Her practice is attuned to the interplay between texture, color, and light, considering binaries of the ephemeral and the permanent.
Part of Mossadegh’s practice involves collaborations with artists across various disciplines, including poets, visual artists, sound artists, and performers. These interdisciplinary engagements allow her to expand the boundaries of her work, creating a dynamic exchange between different modes of creative expression.
Her pieces are part of notable collections, including the Musée d’Arte Moderne de Paris and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Mossadegh engages with contemporary dialogues on painting, studying the connections between sensory experience and conceptual inquiry.
Sonya Blesofsky
Shadow Urn III, 2025
Charcoal on paper
8 x 6 inches
This charcoal drawing is part of a series exploring the beauty, and darker histories that lie beneath European ideals of beauty embedded in Georgian and Federal architecture. This small charcoal drawing is based on an urn seen in the shadows of an old photograph of Robert and James Adam interiors.
Classical ornament is embedded in the psyche of people all over the world—an artifact of colonialism that still defines places today. Artworks like this one come out of my own internalized architectural Eurocentrism, and my disdain for this very attraction to notions of European ideals of beauty.
Nooshin Rostami
Hormuz, the arm of the Sea, 2025
Photograph, color pencil, reflective film
20 × 15 inches
Light drawings are digital photographs of the interplay of light and shadow through mirrors, glass prisms, and sculptures with reflective or transparent surfaces. The photographs are then brought into the studio, where additional layers build dimension and depth to the surface.
This piece references the Strait of Hormuz — a narrow waterway of immense geopolitical significance, and a focal point of the current war on Iran. Light becomes a meditation on tension and transparency: what passes through, what is refracted, and what is blocked.
mujero
untitled, 2024
Image transfer on paper
12 x 16 x 1 inches
mujero (nee. Omar Abreu, b. 1996) is a New York based artist and director. Through sculpture and film, he uses a queer, introspective lens to deconstruct and refashion the objects and memories that shaped his Caribbean-American upbringing. He received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2021.
Bridget Mullen
Untitled, 2020
Flashe on paper
11 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Bridget Mullen holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a BAE from Drake University. She has attended residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Shandaken Paint School,The Jan Van Eyck Academie, The Lighthouse Works, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Roswell Artist-In-Residence Program, The Fine Arts Work Center, VCCA, and Yaddo. Mullen has had solo shows at Helena Anrather (New York), Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and Satellite Contemporary (Las Vegas, NV). Recent group exhibitions include Fahrenheit Madrid (Madrid, Spain); Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery (New York); Wild Palms (Dusseldorf, Germany); Essex Flowers (New York); DC Moore (New York); Thierry Goldberg (New York); Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles); L21 (Mallorca, Spain); and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Rachelle Mozman Solano
Hot birth, cold death #3, 2025
Pigment print
15.5 × 12 inches
Hot death, cold birth are pictures about the psyche, self and historical as buried and reborn enactments. The attention to aliveness of the body as subversive reverberates within the work. Representations of the natural world within the region of American Northeast intersected with equatorial flora, are merged. An enlarged Chestunut tree, the almost extinct species of Northern America, a representation of a female figure as a totem, enlarged Whelk sea shells found along the eastern shore from Florida to Mexico, branches of a Maple tree intersect with an interior space speaking to the layers of the known, the unknown and perceived. These acts are evidence of dimensions and collapsing of existences captured as rituals for the camera.
Rachelle Mozman Solano is the recipient of a NYFA/NYSCA award in 2025, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Aperture Creator Labs Photo Fund in 2024. She received the Colen Brown Art Prize and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation award in 2022. In 2021 she had a solo exhibition, All These Things I Carry with Me, at South Bend Museum, South Bend, IN. In 2020 Mozman released her monograph, Colonial Echo with Kris Graves Projects. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition, Metamorphosis of Failure at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. Mozman has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, Baxter St at CCNY, and Light Work. Mozman was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in 2019, the NYC Film and Media Grant from the Jerome Foundation in 2017 and others. Her work has been published in Aperture, Vogue, Contact Sheet, Presumed Innocence, Exit and numerous other publications.
Mozman is a Fulbright Fellow, and has exhibited at Philosophical Research Society, LA, CPW, NY, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, the Americas Society, New York, New York, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, the Chelsea Museum, New York, New York, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, New Jersey, Festival de la luz at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina the Instituto Cultural Itau, São Paulo, Brazil, the Friese Museum, Berlin, Germany, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, Centro Cultural de España, Mexico City, Mexico, Festival Biarritz, Biarritz, France, as well as the IX Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador.
Kamran Taherimoghaddam
Mushroom Ballet II, 2024
Mixed media on canvas
10 x 8 inches
Kamran Taherimoghaddam was born in Tehran - Iran, he began studying art in Tehran, obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree from Azad University of Fine Arts. Kamran continued his studies in Florence - Italy, where he obtained a Master’s Degree from Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Visual Art and Multimedia. His work crosses multiple mediums: painting, drawing, installation and video art. Since moving to the United States in 2008, Kamran has creatively worked as TV producer, using his artistic training and skills to illustrate social and political stories. His paintings and videos have been exhibited in museums, galleries and art fairs in Iran, Italy, France and USA. He lives and works between Brooklyn, New York and Washington DC.
Iviva Olenick
Monk parakeet, mourning dove and pigeon, 2026
Plant dyes, appliqué, and embroidery
11 x 9 inches
This piece is part of Birdscapes, eco-textiles painted with home-made plant-based dyes, and printed with anthotypes (botanical sun-prints) and/or tatakizomé (gently hammered plants). This piece incorporates butterfly pea flower, hibiscus and pine cone inks, with select threads dyed in photo-developer I made for phytograms, camera-less, low-toxicity photographs. This piece and series reference birds I encounter on Ocean Parkway from the "mundane" (pigeon) to the sublime (monk parakeet) as I study local ecosystems.
Natalie Wadlington
Dog Chewing Paw, 2025
Graphite on paper
12 x 12 inches
Natalie Wadlington (b. 1992) is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Modesto, California, she completed her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in May of 2020. Her practice consists of paintings based in story-telling and figuration. They are specific metaphors which communicate larger, archetypal narratives of love, conflict, and misunderstanding, specifically in our relationship to animals. In the paintings, characters come together in symbolic scenes which mirror our own complex struggles for mutual understanding.
Wadlington has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at The Dallas Contemporary Art Museum. She has been an artist in residence at Ox Bow School of Art, Arrowmont, The CCC at CSU Long Beach, and High Desert Test Sites. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, The Beth DeWoody Collection, The Bentata Family Collection, The Weissman Family Art Collection, The Dan and Jennifer Gilbert Collection, and The Today Art Museum in Beijing, CH.
https://www.nataliewadlington.com/
Selena Kimball
On the third day, 2022
Linen, plaster, oil on panel
10 x 10 x 1 inches
Part of the Jefferson's Bible series — Beginning with photomontage of the printed New York Times — these hand-pulled CMYK silkscreens, are remade into paintings and sculptural assemblage, a physical re-edit of the official record.
Kate Teale
All In 2, 2013
Graphite on paper
12.5 x 19
This is one of a series of drawings made in response to the 2011 tsunami in Japan. It was first exhibited at Studio10, Bushwick in a solo show in 2013 titled The Sea Is All Around Us.
More info from the artist:
I have two distinct but related bodies of work: paintings and wall drawings.
The paintings are usually derived from drawings of familiar things (beds, windows, houses..) emptied to a point of near abstraction. The wall drawings are site-specific meditations on architectural space.
While the content of my work may not be obvious, subject matter drives the imagery: catastrophic events and their effect on human life are the spur to seemingly quiet pieces.
I have made work in relation to the 2011 tsunami in Japan, and much of the domestic work is made in the shadow of the experience of 9/11. I am particularly fascinated by the nature of home and architecture in relation to its opposite – homelessness and destruction.
My paintings appear more photographic in reproduction than they are in the flesh. Made in layers of pure primary colors, they have an optical effect not unlike the pixelated “noise” of digital imagery. Having loved Seurat’s drawings for years, I find myself painting in way evolved from Pointillism.
In both the paintings and drawings, the surface and the light coming from it is an active part of the image. I work by either subtly accumulating or removing paint and erasing graphite from my surfaces, absence, light and loss becoming both subject matter and process.