Self-Reflect
My work explores the development of identity as an image.
I am interested in the manifestation of the self. I use
abstraction and figuration as a means for interpretation.
My recent paintings contain symbols that stand-in for the self,
as well as objects that resonate with personal meaning.
Some of these images include: mirrors, silhouettes, hands, letters.
The large, narrative paintings of the Renaissance were my first loves.
And later, the formal language of Modernism.
These provide me the building blocks for constructing images
that seek to unite form with content.
The story and the process of making my paintings are inseparable.
My paintings contain the narrative element of their own making—
the act of creating.
The picture plane is a mirror.
It is the stage where I confront and articulate personal mythologies.
Painting is how I translate and participate in this experience of being alive.
Vessels
Vessels journey out at sea. Waters peopled
With people like you and me.
a vessel of pleasure;
a vessel of grief.
Over the past couple of years I have been exploring the figure as a vessel of sexual interaction, coupled with nautical imagery and meaning: a boat, the sea, survival, journey.
For me, the process of painting is a narrative unfolding; the development of the story is the act of painting.
These paintings come out of the need for the figures to fight for their survival out at sea.
For a pink line to interact with a blue shape. The journey:
the trying to get somewhere, get around, get inside of, get through.
The figures are at once playful, and soon at great risk. They are containers and contained. They help and hurt each other. They are up against great forces beyond their control.
