Collage work with mid century modern themes

Artist Statement: see below

Adult Diaper Changing for Lifeguards

Some Irregularities

Alien Hunting Party

Could Be Worse

Aquaboy Preferred Wings

Special Rescue Maneuver

Door #1 or Door #2

The Anatomy of Agriculture

Pulp Was Severed

Treasure Hunt

The Ghouls Find Treasure

Hungry Buoy

Clowning Around with Teeth

Wolfman Appears Helpful

Food Prep for Fitness

The Ghoul’s Guide to Safe Food Groups

Ticklish_Not Ticklish

Get the Message?

Be My Baby

Aquaman versus Larry

Trolling for Ghouls

The Skull in His Sushi Boat

Ambivalent Eater

Little Darlin

Mad for Magenta

Reverse Resuscitation

The Ghouls Preferred Seafood

Wolfman Learns to Tie His Shoes

Wolfman Plays Opossum

Wolfman's Sneak Attack

Artist Statement

The imagery of the late 1940’s and early 1950’s is the picture dictionary of my childhood. I was raised to expect the largess of postwar consumerism depicted in mail order advertising.. But the bright and shiny days after the war also blinded me to what stood in the shadows including: racism, classism, conformity and economic insecurity. That truth is my absurdist’s great opportunity for a turnabout, to subvert sentiment and nostalgia for the sake of fun, silliness and commentary.

I gravitate towards a relatively narrow band of that vintage imagery in my work: pen and ink anatomical illustration, close focus dental photography, the fanatical enthusiasm of war surplus advertising and classic horror characters. Each of these elements access the zeitgeist of mid-century mores and artifice endemic to the U.S. after World War II.

I want viewers to find the black humor in my juxtapositions. Such as: matching right and left clavicles become helmets for a pair of sentinels supervising a tooth extraction overlaid on a magazine page advertising cheap war surplus and quick income opportunities. Viewers should also recognize that the jokes I'm telling point to the same hypocrisy we don’t acknowledge still today. My work is impious, irreverent, dark and delicious. It’s grim out there; I make fun.