Mediums
Paintings
Illustrations
Drawings
Prints
Digital Illustration
About my work
Since a young age I have been interested in graphic novels, and the ability that drawings can have in that medium of illustrating much more than one still frame of time. Although I am a painter and not a graphic novel artist, it’s evident in my work that I am interested in creating characters, worlds, stories and spaces that express my intention. My work, especially my paintings, embrace elements of surrealist painting such as depth of space and playing with scale to take everyday objects and create a disturbing or surprising space. I am interested in using space in on a two dimensional plane to affect the mood of the viewer, intimidate them, and make them curious.
Some common themes in my artwork, both my paintings and drawings, are the human form, the emotional impact of faces, and grotesque biological elements. The series of paintings I have in the gallery right now focus on these things. I have an obsession with the repetition of forms and features. My drawings are mainly figurative and I am obsessively concerned with rendering portraits, and with achieving my idea of aesthetic perfection and likeness. My paintings take my obsession with portraits into a more abstracted direction where I am still dealing with obsession and sexuality, but in a more inaccessible and less literal way.
I use digital platforms such as Photoshop both for drawing and for photo manipulation. I use a Wacom Intuos2 tablet for my illustrations (coming soon) for doing comics or graphic novel style illustration. I am also interested in the computer as a gateway to exploring the human heart. I feel that the internet, if we were to boil and stir and re-categorize its contents, would expose a lot of truths about human nature that aren’t visible by inter-personal contact. I have explored this somewhat and put together a page called Race and Google, which you can find in the Misc. digital art link above.
Resume available upon request.
Contact me at downstack@gmail.com
