Artist Statement
My art practice focuses on the interplay of geometric shapes and perceptual experiences. Drawing on the sensory information that inspires and overwhelms me on a daily basis, I devise systematic methods to depict divergent relationships between primary forms. Color, line, and pattern are the tools I use to transmute lived reality into visual metaphor.
Through this process, I investigate and idealize the concept of equality. The visual language of geometry used across many ancient and contemporary cultures provides the source material for exploring interdependence and connection from a non-hierarchical perspective. Its ubiquity conveys impartiality, contradicting fictitious narratives that seek to rank human experience.
The technical challenge in this work is navigating the conversation between my innate need for precision with the ambiguity of emotions and ideas. The search for balance can be seen in my process and finished paintings. Beginning with acrylic, flashe, and/or collage, I build a spontaneously stratified surface. This is followed by subsequent layers of carefully rendered formational overlays, using templates and drafting tools to delineate polyrhythmic patterns. During this procedure, other media such as acrylic marker, colored pencil, fabric, hand-painted paper, ink, graphite, thread, and yarn are often added and manipulated into a complex yet methodical composition.
These works are visually formal, but symbolize something deeper than surface meaning. They are meditations on the human experience and the ways we identify with structure across all realms of existence. In this way, I seek to challenge socio-cultural assumptions and advocate for different ways of being in the world. The completed piece is always a discovery.