Statement
The incidental, manifested both in form and process, is carefully cultivated through
practice to achieve small surprises. It celebrates spontaneity, collision, touch, and
surface. Whether playing music, taking photos, making films or painting, my goal is to
gain an intuitive balance that inspires exploration and inquiry.
In my painting I employ a reduced language of color and form to explore the specifics of
ambiguity. Each painting indexes a distinctive slice of a location, be it gesture painting, a
basement cupboard or linguistic symbols. The slices are drawn from a close examination
of improvisation, visceral attraction and tonal relationships. Together these locations
become both singular images and syntactic components.
When I start a painting, the interpretive models and biographies of art history break in
and voice their stories. But what's important to me is not pointing to this reference, but
the interplay between seeing and interpreting and going somewhere unexpected.
Capturing the feeling of this conversation, with its arguments, hyperbole, and doubts, are
characteristics that define my sense of beauty.