STATEMENT OF WORK

My paintings hold what floats, namely ‘place’ and ‘time.’ Time can be suspended, the to-do list repurposed, and the scroll of life can pause for the important parts to bubble back to the top like a kaleidoscopic calendar.  Existing simultaneously as landscape, portrait, and still life, they are first built off of a familiar structure like a wall calendar, a stacked diptych with an image at the top and a grid on the bottom, or a music staff of five lines running along the horizon. Then, they are interrupted or reified with colors and symbols that are signs and signifiers of place, time, mood, and sensation. The surfaces hold oil paint brush strokes that are both muscular and flourished in touch - emphatic and certain in their economy and intention. 

The point of painting now is to create something that cannot otherwise exist in this world. My paintings are not a replication of this reality, nor a depiction, but instead they are a handmade shorthand of potentials. For me, a flattened space offers truth as opposed to false illusion. The symbols and colors form a visual narrative of a life, a train of thought, free association poetry of the modern world with all of its beauty and problems. Time, temperature, weather, mood and touch all unite in the name of feeling like a crescendo in a love-song ballad. The paintings hold romance, sentimentality, and play the way a mirror holds a note in lipstick or a window holds a backward note in breath. 

My paintings are each an altar to a moment that is fleeting. My paintings are actively a sign, symbol, and record all at once.