I explore unfettered boundaries and the permission to wander in and out of abstraction, form, color as well as organic representation and beauty.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The focus of my painting studio practice is no different from the practice of living— a steady undoing, a constant letting go. It turns in cycles through stages of nothingness, growth, beauty, death— like flowers in the garden.
Along the way it's a bit of a contraction, experiencing a creative path of plurality while letting go what is to become singular. Walt Whitman's "I am large, I contain multitudes" reminds me who I am and how I've always navigated and created art. I am a hyphenated artist working in many mediums over the past 40+ years as photographer, painter, writer, dancemaker, performer, and musician.
Many of those mediums still inform me, though are left behind now for a painting studio practice. In the studio, I sit with the discomfort of that unfolding and not knowing. Uncertainty is very unsettling. I do know if I step aside, if I loosen my grip, curiosity takes the lead, and something unexpected begins to breathe.
I explore unfettered boundaries and the permission to wander in and out of abstraction, form, color as well as organic representation and beauty. Some paintings are instant; others might evolve over years.