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Early Work: Conventional Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (2006 to 2009)
I began my art practice in Montreal with drawing, painting, and sculpture. I favored an expressionist style, heavily influenced by cubism, Weimar-era German artmaking, and contemporary illustration. Thematically, I mostly explored representations of violence and masculinity--I guess processing my experiences growing up in a quite violent place, where violence was a proxy for masculinity and heterosexuality: in demonstrative, valorizing, and normative (by its exercise against those perceived to be lacking) modes.
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