I make paintings and photographs that try to capture what light is carrying — energy, presence, the things you can almost see but not quite. My practice began in a college darkroom and has been quietly going for twenty-five years. I'm finally bringing the work into the open.
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All series →Painting With Light
2007–2014 · 1 work
The series that came out of the BFA — film camera open in a pitch-black room, a flashlight as the brush. The images that came back weren't what was in the room. They were entities; the energy I was carrying, refracted into something you could see.
Dawson A.
2007–2014 · 8 works
Titled paintings from the years I signed work as Dawson A. — letter to Elijah, lioness, the conehead clown, the wax, the self-portrait. Studies that came out of a flow state — paint moving through me into the canvas, the subject deciding what it wanted to be.
Working-Class Youth
2024–present · 3 works
A series about being a kid in the 80s and 90s Bay Area before tech ate it — door-to-door sales as a survival skill, melting-pot neighborhoods, rents that were already starting to climb. The youth that built the tools that built the people who built the place that no longer is.