Destroy All Monsters

While I consider my paintings to be inspired by foundational elements of art and design - color, form, and line - these paintings can also be seen as representations of unreal or liminal spaces. Sometimes the paintings are inspired by banal details of rooms or spaces I have occupied – particularly in institutions or schools. I teach as an adjunct art professor, as well as an after school art teacher in public schools, and it is not uncommon for me to visit three or four different institutions in a week across New York City. The idiosyncratic architecture of the various schools that I work in, coupled with the life of a part-time art educator - inspires a feeling of being perpetually in-between or floating: between spaces and stations and rooms. Because these paintings are first designed digitally in Adobe software (then painted in acrylic on canvas) I see the paintings as real manifestations of digital, or unreal, spaces or objects. Therefore, in addition to explorations of color and form, I also see the paintings as representations of unreal, or liminal, spaces.

Featuring the artwork of Zeren Badar, Justin Corriveau & Eileen Weitzman