The studio is where everything begins. My practice has never been about creating one type of work or following one specific process. Painting, drawing, screen printing, spray paint, sculpture and experimenting with different materials all live in the same space. One idea usually leads to another, and sometimes the things created along the way become just as important as the finished piece.
A painting can take months to reach a gallery wall, but the final canvas only tells part of the story. Before that happens there are drawings, color studies, failed ideas, layers painted over, materials scattered around the studio and countless decisions that change the direction of the work. My process can be strategic one day and completely instinctive the next. There is a lot of trial and error, and I’ve learned that the chaos is often where the best ideas come from.
That way of working has followed me throughout my career. From my earliest robot paintings, to Refined Graffiti, to oil painting and the fragmented figures I create today, the work has constantly changed because I have allowed myself to experiment. I’m interested in people, imperfection, everyday life and what it means to be human, but I’m equally interested in finding new ways to communicate those ideas. Each body of work becomes another chapter, while the studio is the place where all of those chapters connect.
MADVILLX grew naturally out of that process. I never wanted my larger paintings to exist online with an “add to cart” button. Collecting those works has always felt more personal to me, built through galleries, collectors, conversations and relationships. But there is so much created around those paintings that normally never has the opportunity to leave the studio. MADVILLX gives those pieces a place to exist — original drawings, smaller paintings, screen prints, clothing, objects, experiments and pieces of the process that tell another side of the work.
The name MADVILLX comes from what creating actually feels like. It can be mad, chaotic, frustrating and unpredictable, but somehow all of that eventually comes together into something beautiful. This is a way to open the studio door a little wider and make collecting my work more accessible without changing the way I believe fine art should be collected. The gallery gets the finished painting. MADVILLX gets the madness that made it.
