My practice is grounded in the drive to locate and claim space for the abject, contradictory, absurd, or otherwise under-recognized but palpably felt. To this end, I engage the language of reductive abstraction as a base and point of departure to examine the underlying implications of aesthetic form and identify new, more inclusive, paradigms.
The images evolve through an open-ended investigation, where one mark informs the next in an unfolding process of persistent negation and renewal. Each accruing gesture operates as a catalyst to both deconstruct the pre-existent and define the new and not-yet-seen.
Within this framework, the works draw on the interplay of figure and ground, absence and presence, organic and geometric, collapse and construction, still and transitional, raw and cooked, image and object, and other interdependent relationships gleaned in the process of accretion.
Although each painting or drawing possesses its own internal logic and distinct points of insight, all the works are guided by a set of simple, albeit paradoxical, principles: distill clarity in the chaotic, the whole in the fragment, and stasis amidst perpetual movement
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