studio: queens, new york
studio visit: june 2010
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Familiar, generic, and loaded with cultural significance, the suburban parking lot is an archetype of our contemporary environment. As a motif, it has served as a vehicle for my exploration of space, memory, and material.

I play with the juxtaposition of positive and negative, imagery and abstraction, line and ground, and deep space and the flatness of a canvas. The collision of the natural and artificial become metaphors for the creative process. Appropriating the reductive quality of American Minimal and Conceptual painting, while referencing objects and places from the everyday, I hope to engage the viewer on more than one perceptual level. In the most successful pieces, the viewer is made aware of the delicate balance between his or her reading as one of the oscillation between the formal properties of the work and personal reverie upon life experience.
- Kirsten Nash, 2010