Artist Statement 

I alternate open areas with those of heavy pigment in my narrative abstract paintings. This occurs in varying scales and layers across surface supports. Imagery is a bringing-together of brushwork that ranges from incisive to on the surface, poured liquid shapes, gestural lines originating from the wrist and straight marks. Areas of pieces range from loose to taut. Pictorial elements are either inside painting edges or partially off them. A dual focus of what is within pieces and outside them emerges. Infinities and immediacies abut. Tensions arise.

My tools are traditional drawing and painting that are initially from art school training. Embedded marks have origins in earlier mosaic study. Incisive lines are longings for past intaglio printmaking. Diagrammatic marks are reminiscent of home economic sewing patterns. Sensibilities can reflect early years in the South and Midwest, where white daylight burst through openings of hanging North Florida Spanish moss. Missouri mist and humidity later enveloped and pressed against one. The latter was, at the same time, dissonant in quality with the expanses of ground over which it hovered. I bring these polarities and parts to both my Lower East Side studio and work.