STATEMENT OF WORK

My abstract paintings are fizzy and kinetic. They are close approximations of the vivid pops and flashes I see when I stand up too fast. The forms are fleeting, coalesce and disappear, they are fluid and quick, like a flash of light behind closed eyes. I embrace simultaneous points of view from multiple directions. Pigment and medium serve as a means of escape and transport under the ever changing light of our atmosphere. I am always working towards mutability with beauty at its core. I never want my pictures to look the same way twice.

I take as my inspiration the staticky TV’s of my youth, glitchy photos on the web, white noise, and forms that merge and reemerge under an ambient hum. Figures dance, and then dissolve. The light changes and the picture changes. Liminal spaces. The in-between thing becomes another thing.

I like to maintain a certain tension on the surface, lending itself to push and pull. Forms project and recede. Colors are saturated and shifting. Like my poetic practice of layering one thing over another thing, a line from an overheard conversation, a song about a plum. In these pictures I have attempted to conjure the images, coaxing them out with each new layer of paint, with each piece of rice paper I glue to the canvas, all while embracing the residue of previous marks. The struggle to illustrate the infinite is manifested in these paintings.