My work has always focused on abstraction, initially with non-objective imagery, and later by examining the concept of abstract art in various ways, questioning its conventions and traditions. These works took the form of painting, painted relief sculpture, drawing and installation. Since 2000, my work has taken the form of large scale photography, although it has little to do with the usual issues in that medium. The photographs I create depict fantasy installations in grandiose exhibition spaces. The works are produced by first building scale models of gallery spaces, and creating within these original artworks in drawing, painting and sculpture mediums. These installations are then photographed with a large format camera to create the final works.
The Pseudodocumentation photographs are inspired by my background as an installation artist, my passion for monumental museum and gallery architecture, and my abiding love of abstract form. The works reverse the usual situation whereby an artwork is created, subsequently documented by a photograph, and reproduced in a book or magazine as a representation of the work. In my work, what appears to be a documentation of an artwork is the artwork.
One of the abiding concerns in these works is to create installations that would be practically impossible to realize in real life. Thus the photographs function as way to realize the most outrageous and impractical works that I can imagine. Unlike an artist who creates real installations, I am restricted only by my imagination.
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