Artist Statement

This new body of work emerges from the interactions of painting, photography and digital printmaking. I begin my art making process by creating a ‘canvas’ base of digital prints, using archival inks on heavyweight watercolor paper mounted on aluminum panels. I then airbrush, paint and draw on top of the prints with varying combinations of acrylic, gouache, ink, Japanese mineral pigments, oil paint, shellac ,watercolor, pen, and pencil.

 

 

The evolution of my unique multi-media process involves chance and experimentation with varying combinations of materials and substrates. My latest permutation of mediums results in a distinctive surface that absorbs and reflects light in a variety of intensities. The outcome is an ever-changing, luminous surface that simultaneously rests on an actual two-dimensional support. Additionally, a third dimension is synthesized by the physical experience of viewing light reflecting from the flat picture plane. My abstract imagery and unusual surfaces lead the viewer to wonder not only about what is being depicted, but also about where the picture plane exists in space.

 

 

My work derives from a basic theory of interconnectedness and uncertainty in the world. In a society obsessed with factual data, my mixed-media paintings alternatively nurture a romance with the unknown. Although drawn from my intuition, each mark—executed with clear intention and a sense of purpose-- represents a manifestation of my inner self, and a testament to the belief in the artistic act of being. The resultant creations can be read as abstract interpretations of the external world, as well as of the interior dimensions of the psyche. They represent the sinuous fibers that stretch between the internal world of the imagination and the external world of our surrounding universe, questioning with each stroke if any boundaries can be delineated. Here, a theoretical battle is staged between visual perception and mental projection; my art does not suggest a victor, but rather a clearer definition of both sides in which the field is leveled and forces are equaled. Ultimately this work is about this clash and the mutability of self-reflexive thought. When forces emerging from the internal mental landscape (in the form of projected ideas and preconceived notions about reality) collide with the demands of the actual world (expressed as perceivable form), limitlessness erupts within the moment and the instant becomes eternity.