I approach paintings as focalizing, multivalent sites for connection, interaction, and relationship. Contextualizing the act of painting and myself as a painter in a fluid understanding of space, matter, and humanity as multidimensional, multifaceted, and interconnected, I use painting to obliquely raise philosophical questions of human presence and identity through resolutely material interrogation. As a site of exchange, my work locates, activates, and investigates the simultaneous intermediary spaces defined by dynamic dialectical relationships: figure/ground, organic/geometric, fluid/static, connection/isolation, 2-d/3-d, emotional/physical. This engagement of the work with “the space between”, together with the intimacy of the work, invites the viewer into a dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, offering a site of mediation between inner and outer.

My work privelages intimacy over spectacle.

While the works on paper may serve as laboratory and reference material for the paintings on panels, they are discrete, primary, and resolved artworks in their own right. The interactive experience of working on the responsive, relatively fragile paper surface is in direct, significant contrast to the experience of working on the physically impenetrable surface of the spatially solid panels.

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