Artist's Statement

My paintings are love notes to color.  Color serves as a language to signify feeling, a system for navigating the interstitial distance between line and the space it inhabits, a bridge that links the expansion of gesture and the contraction of the material.  This act of painting embodies notions of the sacred through repetition coupled with the surprise of spontaneity as I seek the moment in my paintings and balance it within the space that holds it.  The works link my lived experiences to my ancestral memory, which connects to sites and objects beyond familiarity.

This belies an attempted truce between intentionality and spontaneity; between the mindful and the subconscious; the material and the ethereal; and representation and abstraction. My paintings are negotiations between expanding and contracting dialectics which serve as evidence of internal struggles and dialogues composed of layers, marks, gestures, and of course, color. 

My practice cycles between research, revision, ritual, and instinct, remaining rooted in history, memory, place and time. The marks reference a multitude of systems, both Western and Eastern in origin.  I seek to meet the viewer where they are, aspiring not towards truths or falsehoods but rather a momentary shared experience.