BIO
Liam is a self-taught painter with no formal training as a fine artist. Instead, his process has developed from inventing methods and techniques that are entirely his own. Believing that ordinary approaches yield ordinary results, Liam has continually demonstrated a unique perspective to application, spawning an aesthetic that dually reads as both sophisticated and approachable. In March of 2009, he sporadically began experimenting on canvas in his Philadelphia apartment for fun. Ignited by the exercise, he was possessed to take up painting full-time from that moment forward, rapidly draining his savings on supplies and working around-the-clock. By April, there were so many pieces throughout every workable inch of his space he had to start sleeping in his closet. Clearly, something was unleashed.
Like so many hungry emerging artists Liam began selling on the streets in places like Rittenhouse Square and Olde City, or up in Manhattan at Union Square. Soon he partnered with local businesses, restaurants, and galleries to position his abstracts for sale throughout the tri-State area. Month after month, Liam continued to create, position, sell, and widen his radius of exposure, growing a larger following of collectors and building a business in the process. His industrious nature combined with a keen network of friends and family have been quintessential in fueling each endeavor; one foot simply following the next. Over the last thirteen years, his work has gone from the floor of an apartment to international contemporary attractions like the L.A. Art Show. He has been commissioned by private collectors, celebrities and interior designers to paint custom pieces for homes and businesses throughout the country.
" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is characterized by a distinctively elemental quality that echoes phenomena found in the natural world. Compositions are charged, readily engaging the imagination with animated forms, textures, and tones that feel reminiscent. My aim is building an immersive experience that disarms viewers with an evocative mystique.
Rightfully, some people find abstract expressionism underwhelming. They aren't sure what exactly they should be seeing or feeling, and often, I think, maybe the artist’s intentions just didn’t match execution. Art is personal. But, I believe art should be charming - in whatever way - not challenging. Hidden meanings and pedantically cryptic messages are just crutches. A writer crafts stories. Painters should paint.
In a visual medium your task as maker is to successfully guide an array of details into focus. You learn from every piece. every mark that you make, each triumph, every failure, and all of the happy accidents that occur lead you to a cleaner articulation of what you are trying to express. “Paint” can be many different kinds of material, and there are endless ways to place it on a surface without even considering a brush. Intentions. Execution. Ordinary approaches to painting will always result in ordinary paintings, so the methods I develop as an artist mostly employ unusual tools & techniques inherent to my specific vision. They are an alphabet for me alone that never stops growing.
I paint because I crave change, and I challenge myself everyday to imagine newer, unthinkable ways to move paint.
remarkable things happen because someone bothers to make them happen.