Recent paintings investigate my studio and home as
an archive of my life and a container of my interior
world. I began scavenging the studio for new
sources of imagery, and in the process revived
resources I've used for years, including decorative
materials like patterns, architectural ornaments, even
the designs on my pillowcase and bed sheets.

Images are freely embedded into the paintings. Each
piece becomes a fragmented facet of personal life
compacted onto the painted surface. Yet the greater
the amount of information, personal or other, the
harder it seems to achieve communication or
meaning. All images only seem to lead back to the
surface.

—Jeremy Stenger