Artist Statement:

             My work examines rituals in nonobjective painting and explores abstraction’s value in a contemporary context. These paintings express a romantic and colorful relationship between art histories and present visual surroundings. My use of non-representational imagery serves as a personalized response to recent media’s debates over “realities” and “fictions.” My method, a systematic layering of photographic ink, water, vinyl, and oil-based paint, produces lively representations of spaces without rendering a natural or actual object, figure, or scene. Assertive and over-saturated painted pigments illustrate many cacophonies common to a competitive social media culture, with an exponential exposure to manipulated, visual stimuli. The resulting compositions retain the appearance of beauty at once familiar and completely ethereal, offering an atmosphere in which viewers are encouraged to contemplate the natural and fabricated worlds.

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