Current work: Buy Now

Our online behavior is reflected back at us as commercial images. Buy Now is a slow examination of that reflection, in graphite.

The drawings in Buy Now begin with commercial images that found their way to me via algorithmic curation. Their absurdity and mystery emerge when rendered in graphite on paper. I spend many hours with each one, a patient, observational process that is the opposite of how these images are made and consumed. Drawing them is a way of looking far deeper than they were ever meant to be looked at.

Bio

I’m a artist based in Antwerp. My work draws on two careers.

I trained for nearly a decade at the Art Students League of New York, drawing from the live model under Costa Vavagiakis and later studying painting with Dan Thompson, and continued my studies at the School of Visual Arts and the New York Academy of Art. I also spent years in New York as a brand designer and art director, including as design director for a programmatic advertising publisher, working inside the systems my current series examines.

I teach academic figure and portrait drawing at Tekenfabriek in Antwerp and am developing a practice in lithography and etching at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.