Artist Statement 

I pour and brush paint across surfaces and into canvas weaves in my abstract paintings. There is a spacial and surface configuring which I develop in a work. There are varying sizes in scale as well as alternation between open and pigmented areas. These exist together on single visual planes as well as separate ones. Imagery is built up with incisive and surface marks and poured shapes. Gestural, swooping lines stemming from the wrist, as well as terser vertical and diagonal marks are tools for marking surface and space. Areas of in a work can be loose or taut. Pictorial elements are either inside painting edges or partially off them. Accordingly, a dual focus of what is within pieces and outside them emerges. Infinities and immediacies align and separate. Tensions forge.

My tools are traditional drawing and painting from art school training. Embedded marks have origins in early mosaic studies. Incisive lines are longings for past intaglio printmaking. Diagrammatic marks are allusions to sewing patterns from home economics. Sensibilities reflect early South and Midwest years where white daylight bursts were in tandem with hanging North Florida Spanish moss. Missouri and Iowa mist and humidity was enveloping and stifling. There was dissonance between the latter and the expansive ground over which it hovered. My current Lower East Side studio and subsequently my work, is filled with these polarities, references and forces.