Artist's Statement

I consider myself a lyrical abstractionist, incorporating spontaneous expression and illusionary space coupled with obscured objects and implied imagery. My work honors a long lineage of attention to color and process as my palette and process is influenced by a pantheon of artists that inform my practice as I continually seek the moment in my paintings.

For me, the act of painting takes on a balance of contradictions: intentionality vs. spontaneity; gesture vs. control; conscious vs. subconscious; materiality vs. the ethereal; representation vs. the evocative; contrived vs. authentic. The works themselves are negotiations between expanding and contracting notions of what painting is and can be. They are the evidence of my own internal struggles and conversations - using a language composed of mark, gesture, and color.

Over the past decade my work has cycled between research, study, practice, obstruction, impulse/instinct, and back again. The work is rooted in history, memory, place and time. The marks become a bibliography of forms, a glossary of reference points, which include vessels, natural forms, and calligraphic marks.

Recent work delves into the recurring themes coupled with gesture and immediacy, building stories through the layers.