artist statement

Duality Industries is a multidisciplinary practice encompassing digital photography, acrylic and mixed media painting, and readymade conceptual installations.

Through the lens of duality, liminality, and transitions, my work interrogates consumer culture, societal constructs, technology, and human connection. Focusing on New York City's overlooked entities—thresholds, stairwells, mannequins, vessels, structures, and technologies—I reveal the extraordinary ordinary that we navigate daily. Digital photography serves as my primary tool for capturing these fleeting, interstitial moments, freezing urban transience in raw, unfiltered compositions that emphasize disconnection amid hyper-connectivity.

In acrylic and mixed media paintings, I employ thick impasto, heavy gloss varnishing, and expansive plain color fields to create the illusion of a homogeneous, almost industrial material—denying the traditional "painterly" gesture and concealing the canvas itself. This deliberate sterility, combined with layered iconography, generates emergent meaning through juxtaposition of works and subtle surface tensions, transforming the painting into an object that questions its own status as painting.

Readymades, such as repurposed paddles and extinguishers, extend this exploration into three dimensions, questioning functionality and commodification in Duchampian and Koons-esque traditions while incorporating geometric forms inspired by modern user interface design.

Influences include Rothko's immersive color fields, Warhol's pop palettes, Basquiat's chaotic overlays, ancient Chinese palettes and the spatial morphology of Chinese calligraphy, and the iconography of contemporary UI design. Ultimately, my practice bridges art and humanity, inviting viewers to reconsider the worlds we inhabit—not as passive observers, but as active participants in the liminal spaces between presence and absence.