MFA Show U Albany 2024
Printed pattern, painted gesture and contour line drawing form the backbone of my current process. Biological, geological and atmospheric phenomena merge with patterns that evoke textiles, screens, and architecture. I am interested in the way that different treatments of marks in a painting can imply a variety of motions and sounds. My marks form a kind of visual static, similar to the repeated crackling you would hear on a gramophone. I paint around the subject to invert the foreground from the background. This inversion is a metaphor for nature within and without the subjects. Some subjects are recognizable forms; a moth, a rainbow, a patch of clovers; while others are abstractions which probe their sensory environment. My color palette often collates glazy burnt oranges with soft, cool tones of near white. A perceptual tool I use to enhance the saturation of the near-opposite color.