STATEMENT OF WORK

My work approaches the social and environmental landscape through a fusion of art historical connections, personal narratives, and socio-political subject matter. It investigates the paradoxical dichotomy of civilization and nature through the interdependence which lies in between. It reveals a tenuous axis on which the two worlds serendipitously coexist, merging past and future onto a single plane.

Abstractions in painting and installation invert binaries of nature and camouflage, disaster and neglect, artificiality and object. They are characterized by such negations; images materialize from obstruction and walls eradicate structure. Just as the visible and concealed fluctuate, the work wavers from completion - as though it is still growing, eroding, or waiting for the reflection to break on the water’s surface.

Combining mechanical and gestural modes of image-making, I reproduce control and circumstance in a mimicry of cause/effect in nature. Built with layers of alternating transparency, the paintings take on a quality much like reflective glass, at once materializing interior and exterior. In that likeness, I present the unconscious as physical reality. Flowers define space and atmosphere, creating connections between developing technology and the natural world as well as inducing the haze of a dream or psychosis. Vacant mirrors replace landscapes as contradictions of the sublime and superficial.