About the Artist
I construct my work using a delicate balance of choice and process. I begin each piece by building up chromatic layers of paint with fluid mixtures of color. As I work, I pay attention to the way the colors and forms touch and how they bleed into each other. I carve out and paint around negative shapes using a soupy mixture of white to create icing-like white areas of paint.
During the process of reworking the layers, I begin to project internal images and forms, responding to personal narrative, internal dialogue and imagery that arises. In my newest paintings, I am still working with forms and rhythms that allude to those found in nature, but they have become less decorative more hybrid and formal, with complicated, tangled, overlapping shapes that weave in and out. In some work, I am referencing ladders and holes, shapes that I respond to as openings or entryways; in others, human gestures such as a hip jutting to the side or an arm stretched out, or branch-like animated shapes that could be tree trunks, legs or knees. I arrive at the final painting by several processes: erasure and addition, abstracting and transforming my projections, a response to the ambiguous energy of color and process and exercising a practiced sense of letting go.
