Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
My work explores the intimate and emergent nature of image and form through an interplay of colour and materiality in painting. Working primarily in oil paint on linen, canvas or wood at close scale, I pull from resonant elements found in my surroundings as a way to inform possibilities for response and transformation within the space of painting and seeing.
Each painting's ground is prepared slightly differently with various layers, either with drawing materials, or subtle flower and mineral essences made in water. Over time, colour and surface interact through processes like scraping, rinsing, sanding or layering, evoking different spaces, tones, or figures materially.
Methods emerge from various qualities of 'beginning' and each painting follows its own introspective path, often becoming visually complex before finding resolution through refinement and ordering. This process continues until the work's quality feels precise, capable of directly reflecting something inside the way it is made or encountered.
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