Through my work I want to stimulate our dreams, experimentation and humor.  I evoke the magic and reveal perspectives that we all too often lack in everyday life.  I constantly seek my own realities in order to invent and then discard systems and structures.  Art allows me to forge spaces that create sensuality, to explore […]

Just as a literary piece is convincing when there is congruity and flow in the writing, along with interesting ideas, visual works of art become more engaging when they have a nice balance, rhythm and direction, along with a sincere thought process.  This is how I relate my formal compositions with that of the literal […]

Ebtekar describes his work as “a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology.” Inspired by the delicacy and intricacy found in Persian manuscript illuminations and Islamic architecture, the work employs the image and metaphor of the the portal, the gateway into the next, or the future.       […]

I sometimes use decorative faces on bottles because I like it when things look at you, as if they are ready to come alive and change – like a drag performer putting on makeup.  More recently, I’ve become even fonder of large, aggressive flowers.  Many of my visual references, garish Russian textiles, Renaissance and Baroque […]

In this piece, Andrew Wyeth’s model Christina Olson—who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder in real life—sits, inactively staring out onto the soft landscape, finding solace on the boundary between the internal and the external.  Because of Olson’s dormancy and comfort in the serenity of this moment, technology serves little purpose. The robot is given […]

Sam Jackson’s works produced for VOLTA NY seek to look and contemplate on how it is possible to produce figurative work within a contemporary and image obsessed culture.  They strive to examine both high and low culture and how this can manifest itself in a painting in a serious and sensitive manner.  These paintings offer […]