Talenthouse

I make Paintings that describe harmonies between the organic and artificial: flesh and plastic, image and pattern, mechanism and animal, verbose and dumb, as man today cannot say for sure whether he is closer to the dirt than the pavement. My paintings don’t make an exclusive case for either reckless passion or logical for-thought, for both must be present to engage a self-conscious human mind. My paintings express an un-biased fascination with the legacy of modernism, and an esoteric voice for the fugue of contemporary painting. I have no use for a linear view of history.
I make the images I want to see.

Location United States

Bio I was born in the end of the Eighties. I did quite poorly in school until I arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I thrived explosively for four short years. Currently I live in Chicago creating as much as possible between a pesky day-job, taking every possible exhibition opportunity with gratitude and excitement. There's no time I would rather live and work in than right now. I do what I can to stand out.

Influences My great heroes:

Bill Watterson
Jean Paul Sartre
Shigeru Miyamoto
Carl Sagan
Willem DeKooning
Eric Copeland

I don't want to live in a world where all art is interested in is itself.

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