Young Artists series

The series Young Artists, as well as a later iteration titled Studio Days, are paintings and drawings I worked on between 2002 and 2008 in order to delve into the anxiety surrounding subject matter in contemporary painting. For each painting or drawing I placed myself in the role of one of my own students whom I photographed at work during studio class—I played ‘medium’ picturing my hypothetical ‘self’ in one panel and my hypothetical art in the other. My naive search for naiveté had some very rewarding and sometimes humorous results—it seems the dilemma of subject matter is not restricted to youth but is, rather, inherent to the subject of youth itself.