My current paintings hope to capture historical and cultural events that are not necessarily at the forefront of society. 

We are familiar with paintings like these:

These paintings glorify humanity. (Specifically some of them glorify human actions of genociding and conquering) I hate to see art in such grandur and continuously circulate in education depict these things that are so irrelevant to us!

I hope to paint something that tells a whole history and one historical event dear to me is the night that disco died.

Disco Demolition Night was an event at Comiskey Park in Chicago, home of the white sox. Read the wikipedia article if you are so interested, but I find this a turning point in the history of music. Steve Dahl claims he is not racist or homophobic and that he as a kid was just pissing on a genre. Historically “pissing” on a genre has always been “pissing” on black people. There are so many questions I have for what this night meant.
After the death of disco, house really gained popularity. Using samples and records, using electronics to produce was music now. It changed everything. It created what I’d consider modern music, yet, there is no mainstream understanding of this. I keep finding questions as I explore this through painting and come up with such a rounder conclusion. I hope to continue to find more discoveries.

Here is where i am so far 🙂