Pulled Out of the Shower Drain

Description

My practice combines image making with the result of process. Each layer is vital in developing a history of accumulated depth in color and marks, where ultimately the interaction of materials dictates a painting?s progression. I am attracted to the idiosyncrasies of the material world through the internalization of pattern, color, and form. The grid is a structure I frequently use because I want to manipulate and challenge its rigidity and uniformity.

I see my work as a series of formal experimentations. Arts writer and critic, Lane Relyea, wrote about the resurgence of formalism in a 1998 essay, Virtually Formal. My favorite sentence is from the end of his argument. He states, ?Formalism has always been shot through with hybridity ? it dreams of purebreds and ends up describing mutts.? The idea of wanting to create a pure and beautiful object, contrasts with the reality of the messy, unwieldy, melded constructions that typically results. This filtration system of interpreting a material landscape culminates into a hybridity of inspiration and ideas, which I turn into images.

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