HISTORIC AMERICAN POP SERIES

Historic American Pop takes its name from the idea of a "pop" a slice, a flash, a vivid moment pulled from the flow of time. Instead of pop culture, this series offers pops of history: carefully chosen photographs from pivotal moments in American democracy, reframed within abstract expressionist painting to make the past visceral and urgent for contemporary audiences, particularly Gen Z and millennials who encounter information differently than previous generations. Each piece pairs a historic photograph with explosive abstract backgrounds of gestural marks, layered color, and energetic paint handling.   

The words matter as much as the images. My great grandparents, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, left behind speeches, addresses, and writings that speak directly to the challenges we face today. History rhymes, as Mark Twain said, and these paintings create sound bites, or visual peeks into the past that resonate with current struggles for human rights, courage, justice, and democracy. The series becomes a tool, a way to make history accessible and immediate, to remind us that the ideals we still aspire to were hard-won and require constant vigilance to protect. These paintings don't just commemorate the past. They insist the past has something urgent to say to us now.