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STATEMENT OF WORK
I paint to learn. In my recent oil and mixed media works on canvas, I revisit my roots in drawing by underscoring the importance of line as the framework and foundation for my motivations behind art making. I look to painters such as Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954) to explore my natural tendencies toward insistent flatness, tilted perspective, self-referential imagery, and an increasingly transitional approach to subject matter. The reductive process of Sgraffito brings a patterned, decorative, and gendered sensibility to my compositions. Observing antiquity is an important aspect of my idea development. I hold in high regard those objects made by artists and makers who lived before me, as they reside static and eternal in museums and other sites. Through contemplation and sketching of these sculpted forms and symbolic patterns, I uncover for myself an underlying harmony and the lineage of ritual mark making that I seek to imbue my own work.