ARTIST STATEMENT
This selection of abstract paintings developed during the past five years, explores the space between external experience and inner reflection. The work arises from an ongoing engagement with uncertainty—personal, cultural, and perceptual—and reflects a sustained inquiry into the condition of being in flux.
Working on heavyweight paper, I use process, materials, and physical action to investigate tensions between order and disorder, control and chance, and form and formlessness. Rather than arriving at fixed conclusions, the images remain open, reflecting shifting conditions and competing forces while inviting viewers to question what they see.
Living and working between Boston and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, I move between urban and natural environments. News media, solitary reflection, and walks outdoors generate a dynamic interplay between external events and internal responses, forming the conceptual foundation of my practice.
In earlier work from the series In-Between, a suspended chain with attached graphite functioned as an intermediary, using gravity and motion to initiate marks. In later works, color becomes more dominant. Many titles are drawn from the Science section of The New York Times, introducing irony and underscoring how meaning shifts with context.
More recently, amid cultural turbulence, the studio has become both a site of inquiry and a refuge. I allow gravity and movement to guide the initial flow of fluid acrylic ink, then build layered surfaces with Flashe vinyl paint, additional acrylic ink, gouache, and colored pencil. Transparency and opacity coexist as boundaries intersect, overlap, cancel, and reinforce one another. Instability remains integral to the work, drawing and painting function as intertwined modes of thinking.
A consistent thread throughout my practice is a deep respect for materials and for the physical space in which the work is created. I approach materials not simply as tools, but as active participants, working in partnership with gravity and motion as generative forces.