Artist Statement

Through my paintings, I explore what it means to be enraptured by existence, highlighting our desire to see, feel, and become. I make process-based paintings that play with elements of intuitive expression. I work with acrylic and inks on canvas, often incorporating unconventional and found materials such as paper towel rags and recycled paper goods. Drawn to their tactile qualities, I think of them as records of decisions made through my painting process - a tie-dyed keepsake of past drips, rubs, subtractions. I integrate thick impasto, scumbling, and dry-brush to create my multi-layered paintings, characterized by vibrant, bold applications of color, and playful, gestural mark-making. At once fluid and structural, the physicality of paint continues to serve as a basis for my research. I drag my dry brush across the peaks and crevices of my layered paint, happily surprised by the nuances of time recorded. Like an archeologist, I reveal history, secrets from a past self. 

My chromatic paintings are grounded in the abstract realm. Some of my works feature glimpses of figurative elements in motion, while others nod to the historical tradition of landscape painting. I harmonize colors to create the illusion of light and possibility. The processes of chance, materiality, and evidence of paint and surface are significant to my practice. These components allow a combination of the analytical and the emotional, and invite space for the element of surprise. Within the structure of the conscious and the unconscious, I make work that celebrates freedom and the expansion of the senses, holding the process and the journey at the epicenter of my creations.