artist statement

In our culture there is a job for art, because we can’t experience reality anywhere else.
– Richard Tuttle

I am interested in the complex relationship between culture and the natural world, and how abstraction becomes a tool for navigating, translating, and comprehending human experience. Appropriating the reductive grid of American Minimal and Conceptual painting, while referencing images of everyday places and things; such as generic suburban parking lots, sport stadiums, American flags; I seek to describe an internalized landscape based on memory. Line, grid, pattern, color, texture and the viscosity of paint coalesce into a larger geometry of time and space. Fragile images emerge only to dissolve into abstraction, echoing our daily experience of the contemporary environment.

In the most successful pieces, a tension that is created between the emotional subtext of a work and its materiality. The viewer is made aware of the delicate balance between his or her simultaneous reading of the oscillation between the formal properties of the work and personal reverie upon life experience.
– kirsten nash

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