Portfolio > The Fauna Series

The Fauna Series I
oil on canvas
58" x 42"
2004
The Fauna Series II
oil on canvas
40" x 62"
2004
The Fauna Series III
oil on canvas
46" x 62"
2005
The Fauna Series IV
oil on canvas
35" x 74"
2004
The Fauna Series V
oil on canvas
28" x 66"
2005
The Fauna Series VI
oil on canvas
30" x 40"
2005
The Fauna Series (surface)
graphite on paper
2005
The Fauna Series (surface)
detail
14" x 11"
2005
The Fauna Series (surface)
graphite on paper
14" x 11"
2005
The Fauna Series (drawings)
graphite on paper
14" x 11"
2006
The Fauna Series (drawings)
graphite on paper
14" x 11"
2005
The Fauna Series (drawings)
graphite on paper
14" x 11"
2006
The Fauna Series (drawings)
graphite on paper
17" x 14"
2006

The Fauna Series 04-06
The body of work consists of paintings and works on paper. As a means of depicting contemporary space literally and figuratively, I used images of loft interiors. Superimposed over these images are cropped fashion and domestic advertisements. The superimposed images were carefully positioned over the interiors to establish and to contradict the overall pictorial space of the painting. Though the painted images are familiar, the scenarios remain drained of much of their original content. The details of the spaces are removed and the presence of flesh is removed from the figures, which hover in a represented space to help create a picture. Only shells of the figures and of the spaces co-habituate. The paintings were executed with as minimal approach to the evidence of the mark making as possible, thereby creating a mutually reinforcing relationship between the surface and the content.