Visual Art – Kansas City
Throughout my life, my family has kept me in the arts, training and perfecting my skills at many different mediums. Now that over twenty years has passed since I began my journey in the arts, I have begun to thrive. Since 2013, I have been featured in shows across the US, ranging from venues in Seattle to San Diego to Miami to Kansas City. While my art has traveled the country, I have maintained a gallery in my hometown of Wichita, which is the primary location to view my works, which is called HUE Gallery of Contemporary Art. Wichita has given me vast amounts of knowledge in the arts from my courses at The Independent School, Wichita Center for the Arts, Southeast High School and Wichita State University. Recently graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, which was obtained at Wichita State University, I have begun a journey to expand my venues in which you can view my works.
To tell you about my styles of artwork, let me go into the "Psychotropic Gradation" series that I just began on for Miami. “Psychotropic Gradation” was began this year, specifically for Art Basel, to gain a deeper understanding within multi-planed works of art and the effects of psychedelic color combinations would have on the subject. Each of these works are multiple layers, with some having as many as ten, or others having as few as four. Within each layer, a meticulous amount of paint is added to the resin coats and through the usage of a size 0 or 00 brush, it is very carefully added to the wood panel or resin to keep the shape that was created from diverging out of its boundaries within my own imagination. Much like all my works, these works are part of the “op art” movement that allows movement within a static piece, so the overall visual appearance is more kinetic in nature. Without stepping into too much detail along the process, each of these works take, at minimum, weeks to create, no matter the size. Each layer of paint takes at minimum a day to complete, then each layer of resin takes three days to fully cure to add the next layer of paint on top of it. Much like the works of Jackson Pollock, the environment of the artist is added within each layer of paint, so you will find spills, mistakes, dust, flora or anything of the like that was part of my daily ritual, all by chance, but left in place as the art is created in its realist form, that of which holds a piece of the artists’ life within every layer.