I create oil and acrylic or mixed-media works that combine soft edges and spontaneous gestures with embedded grids or geometric shapes.  In recent works, the addition of 3-D elements such as fabric, crumpled paper, and smaller canvases which are adhered to the larger ones contributes to spatial depth while giving continuity between different media.

 

I start with ink drips, color staining or a single brush stroke. My process then moves toward increasing intricacy, as fields of color and spaces between shapes are filled with calligraphic or free-flowing tiny lines. The quality of detail, often revealed only up close is a unique feature in light of much abstract work. Fine lines and color overlays create fabric-like layers and visual texture while transparency creates intimacy and holds attention.  The use of sharp-edged forms gives structure to the flow.

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This inward direction, then, of both making and viewing explore ways of looking and the flow of perception itself.  The illusion of movement for its own sake, on a 2D surface reflects the capacity of abstract art to play with color and form, unfettered by reference and meaning, inviting an experience that is both immediate and open-ended.  In my paintings the fluid lines are like rivers on a map of somewhere.

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My work investigates the path from surface to subtle, reflecting the mind’s desire, I believe, for an experience of presence, beyond thought- a state of attention without naming. Art in any style has the ability to bring this about. For me, this theme points to a sense that the excitement of color and shapes yields another kind of excitement – that of stillness. I think stillness and movement live inside each other. Color and movement are synonymous and shapes performed spontaneously need almost endless, quiet elaboration.