STATEMENT OF WORK

     These oil paintings continue my investigation of color, geometry and materiality through referencing the built environment as a metaphor for the human experience. In this new series titled, Always Already, I refocus attention on the structural landscape of the body and the potential for painting to ground and connect us to internal, physical experience.
     Lost in our screens, our cultural obsession with the digital is a cause for deep concern. In response to this movement towards personal and collective disembodiment, I create paintings that emphasize the tactile physicality of embodied experience. The process of creating these works is extremely physical and functions as an act of personal rebellion. Throughout the process of making these paintings, I am reminded that I am a tactile, sensing, embodied being. 
    I work with thick applications of oil paint mixed directly on the canvas, and use a range of flat tools intended for applying drywall compound to compose paint surfaces that vibrate with slabs, ridges and peaks. Areas of the surface are built, layered, mixed and remixed as the paintings evolve. Driven by the exploration of the haptic and sensual, I create works that speak to our sense of touch and proprioception to bring us closer to our bodies, our materiality and through that process connect us more deeply with the places we inhabit.