Artist Statement
As a young artist, I was fortunate to explore many mediums including sculpture, drawing, installation, printmaking, ceramics, and painting. My work has always traveled the spectrum between abstraction and representation. Abstract Expressionism, Japanese prints, Postmodernism, and the California Colorists are some of the influences that have found their way into my heart. Artists that continue to influence my work include: sculptors Eva Hess, Kiki Smith, Robert Irwin, Andy Goldsworthy, Mona Hatoum, and Anish Kapoor; photographer Joel-Peter Witkin; painters John Singer Sergeant, Wayne Thiebaud, Willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer, Sandro Botticelli, Alice Neel, and Francis Bacon; and mixed media artists Robert Rauschenberg, Betye Saar, and Joseph Cornell.
My larger abstract paintings are my most empathic, and though they are wholly abstract they remain firmly grounded in the figure. In other, smaller works, paint and other media embody the process of making whereby I deliberately leave apparent the possible mistakes, alterations and overpainting to reveal the intuitive manner in which the work comes into being. Drips and remnants of other processes give the impression that chance plays more than a passing role in my work. Then there are the landscapes; an expressed concern for color, texture and form encompassed in the ongoing practice of remaining loose. When the work is viewed as a whole, one is witness to the ebb and flow between reality and the recalled, a metaphor for my most painterly of concerns: how the synchronous colors reality.
My larger abstract paintings are my most empathic, and though they are wholly abstract they remain firmly grounded in the figure. In other, smaller works, paint and other media embody the process of making whereby I deliberately leave apparent the possible mistakes, alterations and overpainting to reveal the intuitive manner in which the work comes into being. Drips and remnants of other processes give the impression that chance plays more than a passing role in my work. Then there are the landscapes; an expressed concern for color, texture and form encompassed in the ongoing practice of remaining loose. When the work is viewed as a whole, one is witness to the ebb and flow between reality and the recalled, a metaphor for my most painterly of concerns: how the synchronous colors reality.
