Compulsion, consumption, and competition—the contemporary expression of the human struggle between the limitations of nature, anatomy, landscape, and physics and the lure of limitless expansion, globalization, and technology—this inspires my work. We seek relationship with the natural world even as we experience… Read More
Compulsion, consumption, and competition—the contemporary expression of the human struggle between the limitations of nature, anatomy, landscape, and physics and the lure of limitless expansion, globalization, and technology—this inspires my work. We seek relationship with the natural world even as we experience disconnection, fracturing, and abstraction. We seek to save and protect it, even as we work to control and consume.
Living organisms and the human body are of great interest to me, particularly their biological and physiological responses and adaptations to the synthetic, i.e. hormone replacement therapy, genetically modified foods, pharmaceutical medications, etc. This struggle is often evident in my work for each piece serves as an attempt to construct a new environment or reality - an abstract, biomorphic landscape of sorts.
Invoking movement and life within a macro/micro context is an overall aesthetic I seek to achieve. My process is intuitive and autonomous, yet deliberate and direct. By playing in between the lines of control, I offer the material room to naturally dictate its own existence and place in space – expanding, coinciding, and collapsing. I often find most of my techniques to be sculptural. Through the pouring and layering of mixed materials, a sense of space and depth of field is further emphasized. Organic forms juxtapose structured geometric lines and shapes; paint and resin drip and swell; quickly drawn lines speak to a static current through the composition.
I am interested in the middle ground between the paradoxical: natural and synthetic, order and chaos, growth and constriction, the inner world (emotional) and the outer (logical or physical), the imaginative and the concrete. My desire for balance between these oppositions is evident in my process of making, and it is within this process where the meaning of my work lies. A mythical space is created where material, form, shape, and color converge in a single moment to coexist in a connected, balanced space as one. Read Less
