Cartoons

Cartoons is a series of images made in order to prevent the comedic things in life from slipping away.

I, like many people, navigate the world through humor, and I am always saddened by how jokes, these lodestones and keys for making it through life, vanish into thin air. Inspired by my favorite artist of all time, the cartoonist, B. Kliban, I began making pictures I consider cartoons, jokes that are free from the gravity of “serious” art, and yet resonate and make meaning and are sometimes genuinely profound. The pictures are sometimes staged, sometimes found, and feel like a performance, like the translation of a series of jokes on the page to a standup on a stage. It is an ongoing series. This morning I woke up with the image in my head of a man filling up a painting at a gas station, and I know it’ll be my next cartoon. Cartoons was first shown at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, in my exhibition, When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas) in the fall of 2018.