“I approach painting as a form of collage, playfully dissecting then reconstructing visual languages to arrive at a form of abstract painting that is both autobiographical and historically aware. My omnivorous appetite for visual culture results in a wide array of references, quotations, techniques and materials. This cut and paste ethos is a direct result of my experience in the subcultures of the 1990s. Other influences like xeroxed zines, video game arcades, television motion graphics, and design elements from disco and early graffiti, combine with painterly and geometric Abstraction. I choreograph this ensemble on the painting’s surface employing a variety of paint handling techniques and charged interactions. The transformed “whole” of these painterly elements destabilizes their component languages, and ultimately creates the grammar for a new one. For me, simply restating the terms of formal abstract painting is not a sufficient exercise in 2025, but by reshaping existing visual codes, I hope to create a customized, reinvented, individualized dialect of abstraction that is specific to my life experiences and relevant to this time and place.”
