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STATEMENT OF WORK
I make abstract, double-sided, three-dimensional paintings. The recent forms are structural yet flexible, containing infinite gestures and configurations. Each painting is formed from a single piece of canvas — painted, coiled, and folded in on itself. The forms slump, dangle, jut, and hang, as if garments slack and ruffled across invisible bodies.
Double-sided, the forms’ piped edges delineate and confuse inside and outside as if clothing strewn across the ground. The stitches nod to my mother, a fashion designer, and expert seamstress. Despite decades of offerings, I never learned to sew. The crude, rhythmic stitches mark this, holding the wire that animates the forms.
Color is instinctive and mischievous. It dictates the initial cutouts and the subsequent forms. I embrace clashing and incongruous colors and the thrill of trying to make them fit together. I soak the cutouts in paint and they record the contours of the surfaces on which they rest.
The series title, Mantle, speaks to the paintings’ simultaneous allusions. The paintings are self-supporting and relational — an inch changes everything. They hover, buoyant. Soft armor ready to be worn.