Paintings
My work is a passionate and colorful homage to the human form. It brings together an assortment of faces and bodies, ranging from the meager to the muscular and from the graceful to the grotesque. My eye is respectful but also ruthlessly penetrating. It is irresistibly drawn to the psyche. I may be a painter of people but I am also a painter of souls. In each of my portraits I ask the question, Who is the wearer of this seemingly unique suit of skin stretched across a frame of flesh and bone?
I try not only to render my subjects’ surface features but also to render visible, as much as possible, the unseen and elusive occupants within. At first, my brushwork comes off as fierce and lacerating, as if I wanted to tear the canvas apart. Upon closer examination, a lightness and tenderness of touch become evident, as if my brush gave form, finally, and paradoxically, to the immaterial. From portrait to portrait though, my various interpretations of the human soul bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. While we vastly differ in our physical predicament, we are remarkably similar within. Perhaps we are all possessed by the very same single soul.

man with blue face

woman looking sideways

you make me cry

man singing

nude with white breast

woman with strand of hair

woman with knife

man with green skin

man with machete and ill intentions

nude with blue cheek and red flowers

girl with pink flowers

man with cigarette

man-joining-fingertips–2005–30×24

nude with blue fingers

hold me

woman against blue

nude with red cheek and curly flowers

man in yellow

man in white loincloth

man yelling

man with fingers on knee

man-with-orange-arm-against-red–2006–48×36

man-with-blue-telephone–2003–22×30

man in light blue

man with necklace

man with yellow arms

man in orange

man with white fist

red girl with green lip

woman against red and white

man with long arm against black

man with twisted arms

girl with red and blue lips

man with chain

green dancer against yellow

man in fear

woman with blue lip & ponytail

man with green skin and an attitude

nude with yellow hand

nude with two red fingers

woman with blue lip & nipple

let me shoulder your guilt

woman with dark lips

man with long face

red nude with blue flowers

red man with chain

nude with pink breast

man with knife

irritated woman

sad-woman–2004–30×24

girl with red lips against yellow

man with orange skin and weapon

locked fingers

man with curved blade

nude with red nipples

green dancer against red

man with weapon against black

woman with red arms

man behind rectangle

man with contemplative eyes

man behind hand

nude with red cheek

outstretched hands

man-with-yellow-nose–2004–18×14

woman with claws

man with hand up in the air

man with two arms

man with blue hair

man with blue eyes

man with black telephone

shirtless man with an attitude

man-with-red-phone–2003–24×30

blue nude with blue flowers

man with crossed fingers

man with red elbow

the glance

you don’t know me

man-with-pointed-ear–2004–18×14

man with knuckles

man with open hand

man in profile

man with gray-blue skin

man in silk shirt

man pulling his mouth open

man with open palm

man kissing woman

man with saw and cigarette

red nude with dark hair

woman-holding-man–2005–30×24

man with red lip and claws

woman with blue nose

man with clenched fists

girl with red hand

red nude against light blue

man with red hands

primal scream

woman with yellow nose

man in yellow shirt

woman with sharp wrist

man in white shirt

dancer with green eyelid

red nude against white and blue

man holding woman

man-with-hand-stretched-out–2006–48×36

blue nude against green

girl with headdress

irritated man

woman with black hair

man with cigarette and green arms

man with fist

nude with orange arm

woman with two flowers

man with long arm against red

girl with pink flower against green

smoker making eye contact

face with teeth

dancer with red cheek

yellow toothed man with dog

I own you

man with hands on his hips

extended hand

the benefactor and the punisher

man-against-red–2003–28×22

hearing voices

man with machete

woman with hand on her shoulder

man with yellow hands

man distancing himself

dancer against green

nude with ponytail and flowers

red nude with white flowers

man with claws

shirtless man

warlord

red and blue nude

man looking downward
