Momentum (2013)
Influenced by photography and the numerous ways images enter our personal space, my work examines how we see the world through the multifarious facets of reality and virtual reality. I use simple geometric patterns together with expressive applications of paint to represent the distortion of digital photography and the lack of clarity our memories provide. By pairing a variety of images together in seemingly incongruous ways and abstracting form in favor of ambiguity, my work attempts to challenge the viewer to create their own narrative.
Canal Street
oil on canvas | 60 x 48” (152 x 122 cm)
Exhibited at New Museum of Los Gatos, 'Abstracts from Life: Bay Area Figurative Past & Present', 2017
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Reoccurring Patterns (2012)
These works focus on the figure, not as a representation taken from life, but as an incarnation of the forces of paint. Ambiguity of form and environment shroud narrative in mystery, revealing enough through the veil of paint to evoke empathy on the part of the viewer. As such, the viewer’s perception becomes an integral component of the work.
Metamorphosis (2010-11)
In this series, I’m interested in aspects of individual and group evolution. Language from both representation and abstraction are used in order to articulate this concept uniquely in each composition. Figures are depicted in ambiguous narratives which offer viewers multiple interpretations deriving from their own state of mind. Expressive applications of paint mirror one’s own sense of the world, which is not static but constantly changing and uncertain. Paint functions both to create the illusion of depth and to break this illusion in favor of surface qualities which suggest movement, strength, and ethereality. My interest in the concept of metamorphosis stems from the transformative changes I’ve observed in others and in myself and the extraordinary coping mechanisms employed by humankind.
