As an artist, I have taken on the task sorting and re-arranging information. Using process and experimentation as a starting point, my work investigates the desire to create order out of chaos. To this end, I am partial to abstraction because of its intrinsic inability to illustrate, and the ensuing challenge this presents.
Culling from the history of painting, I purposefully employ several visual tropes throughout the work. By fusing together disparate elements, I’m able to create a mash-up of events, a conglomerate universe in miniature. While architecture, technology, and landscape are prevalent themes throughout the recent work, I do not rely on themes as a primary source of motivation, but instead address issues as they arise.
Much of the work is autobiographical in the sense that it reflects my response to, and filtration of, events, memories and moments that make up each day. I mimic this experience by alternating between areas of obsessive-compulsive detail and areas containing seemingly haphazard gestures. Through layering and excavation I negotiate boundaries between control versus loss of control. Inherent in the work is an implication of lack. Information is missing, incomplete, or thwarted.
Ambiguity is part of the work in the sense that the viewer completes the process of interpretation. Throughout the work, the common thread is a desire to transform the unfamiliar into something that gives resonance.
