When the purpose of an object is no longer relevant or the object has no relevant purpose we are left with an interpretation purified from logic. These satirical ideas craft the way in which the humorist presents theory to the alien. As the function is striped from factual authority it spawns a social commentary on personal perception and relation. Separated from imposing reason the most ordinary of objects can become a contemporary artifact exhibiting our most cherished cultural heritage.
The painting of the evidently normal discloses the reasonable absurdity of the assigned expectation. The utterly mundane can become extraordinary from an amended perspective. Paintings such as a barbecue with a propane tank but inside of burning charcoal reveals the danger of just a little knowledge. A phoney tree cell-phone tower presented as a sapling in a plastic pot shows the ridiculous expectations of a manufactured life. With incoherent reason and a bastardization of the culturally sacred we can bring discourse to the ego of our greatness.
Education:
2014 MFA San Francisco Art Institute
2008 BFA Otis College of Art and DesignSelected Exhibitions:
2021
small works-Big Talent, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA2018
Winners Group Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2017
People's Choice Double Decker Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY WINNER2016
Stuff, Cookes Gallery, Los Angeles, CAWish You Could Have Seen This, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Presentation by Ma Li2015
Group Show, Newport, Long Beach, CA2014
Afterlife, Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
A cARTel presentationPrinciple, The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute MFA exhibitionSize Matters, Asofnow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HYBRID, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
*Part of SFICA collaboration between CCA and SFAI graduate students2013
CONTINUING MFA SHOW, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA2010:
The Fireworks, Candy, & Puppy Dog Store, Project Infest, Los Angeles, CA2008:
Pony Up, Otis College B.F.A Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Mobious Effect, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2007:
General Cluster, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2005:
From The Far Reaches of...., Up Stairs at the Market Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca