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In the FAME series, I am exploring pop culture and its fleeting nature, especially as seen in celebrity worship.

This work focuses on perceptions of fame and how the popular media influences and imprints our imaginations. By isolating individual features on celebrity bodies and reproducing them using a mixture of graphic line and loose watercolor wash, I create an intimate image of vague familiarity. These gestures and expressions – Scarlett Johansson’s pouty lips, Scooter Libby’s worried glance – portray both a likeness and a brand. This paring down process distills the celebrity’s ubiquitous image into a trademark singularity resulting in drawings that seek simplify a fluid popular culture abundant in imagery and information.

FAME was first shown at SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle WA, in October 2004.