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about
my work
Art is a practice of understanding. I want to understand everything
and I believe that art provides a space where that is possible. Perspective
is often clouded by humanity, but my practice is dedicated to finding
and unpacking those moments and glimpses of brilliant providence,
where a rich, if brief clarity allows ideas to coalesce and burst
through my consciousness. My art works are intimate, personal and
often theoretical investigations of the fluidity of life.
Experience is
grounded in emotion, so I use abstraction to illuminate emotional
space, bridging the gap between my humanity and that of the viewer,
who uses his/her own emotional awareness to perceive and communicate
with my work. The body of my work concentrates on how landscapes look
and feel through thoughtful recollection. Whether painting horizons
with the postmodern flatness of memory, or deconstructing the topography
of quantum physics, landscape informs my perspective and allows the
works to travel internally through gradients and color values, and
externally, through the kinetic vibrancy of the compositions.
The gestural
quality of my compositions conveys the organic motion and momentum
of the unwritten language of energy. I put my whole being into the
imprints I leave on the canvas with calligraphic movement. These forms
are both intuitive and contemplative in structure, and representative
of evolutionary ideas manifested through my search and survey of the
media that attract me: oils, pigments, ink, and resin.
The canvas provides
a self-referential structure for me to explore scale, position and
volume of color, form and texture. My latest explorations on surface, reflexion and glare allow me to create my own mini-universe in which
I can represent both my understanding and my questioning of the universe
at large. Ultimately, my hope is that the viewer shares this microcosm
with me, searching for the same ideas, solutions, and emotions that
connect us.
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