Statement
Dusk and dawn. Both moments of twilight unfold into powerful forces that combine and melt their colors in the big magnificent canvas called sky. We divide nature into night and day, but dawn and dusk are equally part of the cycles of creation. My work exists in the fragile, messy light of morning and the murkiness of eventide – perhaps it is in places and moments of uncertainty where hope resides.
I examine the often conflicting ways we conceive of the natural world. My approach is multidisciplinary. I work with a range of materials and images to create mixed-media paintings, which are frequently situated as site-based interventions and installations.
The gradient and minimalistic landscapes I have been painting during the past two decades depict both real and imagined places in transition and transformation. I use abstracted vocabularies to combine beauty and chaos that melt, stain, fracture, collapse, and uncover – reflecting a process that evokes interior and exterior spaces in crisis. I seek options beyond the binary that open up space for possibility by transcending inherent divisiveness. In search of a spectrum of rejuvenation, my practice of painting in an expanded field often exceeds the restricted realm of the stretched canvas. It surpasses borders and extends across walls, ceilings, and floors to doorways and windows. It expands outside to building façades, street corners, waterways, meadows; it is hung in turbulent winds and stretched across shifting skies.
My understanding of landscape and art is entwined in broader social makings. The work I create is intended to encourage viewers to reflect on their daily actions in a socially responsible manner to preserve and protect the planet. My line of questioning considers how images of landscape influence the contemporary value of nature, home, and desire for control amongst turmoil. I ask, in what new ways are humans tied to their environments and how do we envision our relationships with nature in the future?