I am struggling with the idea of labeling and defining myself as an artist. What kind of an artist am I?
My influences range from philosophical writings to more modern discourses. My life experiences play a large role in the work that I choose to create. My work is molded from my own thoughts and discussions with others, through critique, witnessing other artwork and asking questions that will help me define and redefine the process for myself.
Recently, Ted Warburton referred to me as an “Environmental Installationist”.
Which may be described as an installation artist who utilizes the whole environment to convey the significance of their installations. Not just an artist who works in installation, but an artist who utilizes all tools such as the temperature, olfactory, visual, temporal, tactile, performative, and visceral to convey the idea. All of my installations hold a deeper narrative, while being conceptual in nature, albeit still aesthetic.
I believe that my work has danced along a fine line of informative while bordering on didactic, because I seek to educate the viewer. Understanding rather than being understood seems to hold a great amount of significance for me, which plays out in my artwork.
James Turrell, Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, Robert Irwin, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Plato, Mann Ray, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Cage, Allen Kaprow, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Led Zeppelin, Georgia O'Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, Louise Nevelson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cindy Sherman, Melanie Santos, Alexander Calder, Edward Weston, Justin Brown, Jackson Pollack, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, Plato, Ian Kennelly, Michael Franti, Maria Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Lee, Yoko Ono, Pae White, Sally Mann, Joseph Cornell, John Barnett, Andrea Zittel, Buddha, Ingo Maurer, Olafur Ellison, Bill Viola, John Greer, Andy Goldsworthy, Melanie Stewart, Robert Smithson, Paul Kos, Roland Reiss, Hope Werness, Dean De Cocker, Gordon Senior, etc....ad infinitum.
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