Artist Statement 

I pour and brush on paint across surfaces and into crevices in my abstract paintings. There is a spacial and surface configuring I develop in a work via varying sizes in scale and the alternating of open areas with pigmented ones. Such areas exist together on single planes. They do so as well on separate ones. Imagery is built up with incisive and surface brush marks and poured shapes. Gestural lines that stem from the wrist and vertical or diagonal marks are tools for touching surface and space. Areas of works can be loose or 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 are able to align. Tensions can 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 can reflect early South and Midwest years where bursts of white daylight and hanging North Florida Spanish abounded in tandem. Later, Missouri mist and humidity was enveloping and oppressing. There was dissonance between these phenomena and the zooming expanses of ground over which they hovered. My current Lower East Side studio and subsequently my work, is filled with these polarities, references and forces.