\u201cCrystal Keychain\u201d Gouache on paper. 14\u201d x 11\u201d, 2020, $350.00<\/p>\n
My work is an homage to my youth, my trolls are portraits of myself and my friends. I paint from fragmentary memories, I over-exert fleeting moments, I mysticize and romanticize them. Growing up as a queer, wayward teenager in a place like New Jersey you do nothing but overromanticize and fancy yourselves as these urban legends, as the ghosts that haunt the woods and malls. I want to paint my teenage backdrops and confidants the way I saw them then, I want the living rooms to feel like refuges, and the 7-11 parking lots to feel like sacred spaces. I draw huge influence from artists like Kim Dorland and Rebecca Morgan, whose work is brutally honest love notes to their upbringings and hometowns. I work in an illustrative style with acrylics and gouache to further these fictionalized but biographical subjects and give a surreal quality to an otherwise plain seeming world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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