My work uses a hybrid visual and material language to examine the shapes and seams holding my surroundings together. Observed or recalled details and colors provide a starting place, quickly transmuted and obscured as the painting progresses — but these elements are never lost, as every painting decision surrenders to and shapes the next.
For me, painting is both slow and spontaneous; it relies on practice, constant mental notekeeping, and a desire for structure, while the physical processes of painting allow for improvisational responses to change and the workings of chance.
My recent work is assembled in layers of forms and color, abstracted from my urban/suburban surroundings. Each painting is brought to a state of balance or completeness, and then often torn down by scraping, abrading and otherwise trashing the surface. The results serve as the basis for rebuilding the piece in a new direction. The finished work is animated by hints and evidences of these processes.