Artist Statement

Using a self-created lexicon of semiotics and language, both abstract and personal, I make paintings that rely heavily on drawing and a process of addition, redaction and self-examination. There is no hierarchical importance to thoughts or seemingly mundane objects, such as an electrical outlet, light bulb, chair, window, and ladder, detached from their preconceived use/value. I combine and recombine these ordinary things into new relationships to alter cognition. Abstracted text and letterforms are integrated throughout the panels disrupting mere spatial readings thus furthering the viewer's desire to build connections among the disparate parts. The final work can appear to be of an interior (mind), domestic (architectural), or landscape (nature) scene, where a process of erasure leaves former marks—possible directions—only somewhat visible. Rarely is there a complete image, word or a full sentence— completion is arrived at by imagining what is outside of the frame of the artwork thus making a mysterious narrative tension between what is seen and unseen. There’s a transactional quality to my process that acknowledges a work is only completed in the process of viewing and interpreting.

With a background in fine art, graphic design, and film production, I aim to present a world that appears familiar and inviting yet, simultaneously, acknowledges the chaotic and frenetic. I create images where this duality is given form and bound to the notion of movement, enabling active viewership.  When one moves in closer the intricacies of the drawing are charged, when one stands at distance the whole image is freed.