Technology has hijacked our reality. This painting series is my response.

Culled from bland 1980s stock photography these artworks explore the deleterious effects of computerized corporate environments on the human psyche. Appropriated scenes of conventionalized professionalism are recharged with implied—often seemingly inappropriate—emotions. Racism, sexism and the dynamics of abusive hierarchical power linger just beneath the surface. Bright colors flood otherwise neutral spaces as linear perspective gives way to fragmented space and distorted shapes. The historically sterile rationality of the office and its archaic technology dissolves into a mundane and gaudy nightmare. The figures that inhabit these visions assume a soulless “narcotic gaze” in a desperate attempt to survive accelerating change in an imploding world.

Although made to address issues of contemporary society, my work is also autobiographical. Painting is, for me, a deliberate return to process—a practice that has largely been rendered obsolete by emerging technologies and the race for greater productivity and efficiency. Choosing to create art works by hand instead of instantly—digitally—is an assertion of the value of unique objects, with a nod to the reality of experience.