Plates

Plates are organized in reverse chronological order. For additional insight, please read the artist’s statement.

HUMANSCAPE. 2021-2025

HUMANSCAPE is a series of 29 monumental portraits of people the artist met on the streets of Manhattan, chance encounters that took place over a four-year period. The majority of the individuals the artist chose to draw also volunteered to have their thoughts recorded on the artist’s cell phone. In an exhibition, these audio files may accompany the artwork by means of a QR code.

HUMANSCAPE examines the tension between the city and the people who must endure its challenging environment, especially those individuals most underrepresented in society.

Sample plate:

Title: “Brian” (2023)

Dimensions: 50 x 50 inches

Media: oil-based paint pens on canvas

Brian’s thoughts: audio file

Precipice. 2022

This work was inspired by a selfie the artist’s son took just months before losing his long battle with clinical depression. The jpg file was the last one saved on his camera.

Dimensions: 72 x 108 inches

Media: oil-based paint pens on canvas

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Threshold. 2021

The concept of impermanence is an essential doctrine of Buddhism. It teaches all human existence is temporary. The artist experienced an enlightened moment when he witnessed the transitional beauty of his father’s approaching death, an aspect of human existence that is as consequential as birth itself.

In this piece, the profile image of the father comprises 108 paper sample cards (4″ x 6″) that are arranged and mounted on three boards of identical size to form one continuous image. According to Vedic cosmology, 108 is the basis of creation, thus representing the universe and all of our existence.

Dimensions: 36” × 72” (three panels)

Media: graphite on 4×6″ paper sample cards

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I’m Not Here. 2019

This project imagines the city through the eyes of an individual suffering from clinical depression. The inspiration for these two drawings came from a conversation between the artist and his teenaged son who fought this disease for seven long years.

Dimensions each scroll: 4.5 × 29 ft.

Media: oil-based paint and ink pens on white Rives de Lin paper roll (350 gsm)