The focus of my work is the unexpected relations between feminine and masculine icons in popular culture.

The contrasts and similarities between icons and what they represent have always fascinated my artistic tastes. Popular culture is filled with icons that have no immediate similarities between them, but when I place these icons next to one another I start to see the qualities that they share. My work examines these relations by juxtaposing Icons on the same canvas. Popular culture often contradicts itself and my paintings show this by relating contrasting icons made up of contrasting materials, genders, or time periods. By doing this, I want to show that popular culture often concerns itself with beauty, lust, sexuality, and desire while at the same time greed, violence, corruption, and hate. We as media consumers find both equally attractive and seductive. Popular culture is equally interested in looking at and experiencing both but never at the same time. My painting examines this mutual attraction between feminine and masculine icons of popular culture at the same time.