STATEMENT OF WORK

Working in a stripped-down palette, I apply thin layers of oil paint to panels or paper. With rags, brushes, and color shapers, I interrupt the under-painted surface, adding and removing paint – distilling an abstracted, atmospheric image. In my paintings and drawings I employ pictorial space as a threshold to explore the emotional resonance of liminality, memory, grief, and the interior within constructed space. As a silent character, I dissolve into the transformative armature of painting and drawing, navigating the vulnerable questions of loss without the requirement of a clear answer.    

My subjects are transitional spaces: a vertiginous stairwell, a whirling tunnel, the resonant passageway under a bridge, the sensuous bend of the highway. I offer these fleeting images without regard for their destination, evoking movement through the lens of a disorienting pause.

In reimagining an image, details serve as leverage to obscure the line between representation and abstraction in each scene. I think about my intervention as determining the depth of field in a work. These fragmented moments behave like ominous portals.        

In my investigation of these elusive moments of forced stillness, I often question what needs to be intact in order for something to be recognizable. As the images evolve, I slowly examine how much time and context I can suspend within the scene. I draw attention to these delicate, ephemeral thresholds that elicit anticipation for the unknown, call for surrender to discomfort, and ask, what is lost when reimagined?