ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a Maximalist and a Materials oriented abstract artist.  I am excited by the alchemical, physical, and emotive nature of paint itself as a subject, and its interplay with other materials I use in my work - resin, glass, wood, metals and concrete. My work documents and expresses emotional states and intellectual perception through forms within structures or zones of abstraction. Since narrative exists within the material context, it is the exploration of physical interplay of materials that allows me to express emotion, spirituality, impermanence, and other conditions of human experience.  I consider maximalism a product of minimalism and abstract expressionism, with a focus on architecture, materials, processes of transformation, decay and change.  I believe this to be the next arena in visual language which makes up the vocabularly for my work. 

Working with paint as a sculptural tool I revel in the visceral experience of viscosity and gravity. Each type of paint and artistic material is an alchemical ingredient that transforms when brought into concert with another. I use oil paints and washes, oil and water based polyurethanes, resins, acrylics and enamels to suggest change and decay. These organic processes married with architectural forms and subtle pallets of color create a moving, restive balance of forms. By using varied materials and deep optical juxtapositions, the viewer is given a reason to pause and consider different points of contrast, blending minimalism with passion and a musical composition related to the emotional perception of color, depth, texture and light.