The motivation for my work stems from my desire to create serenity and beauty within the repetition, balance, rhythm, and attention to detail in my structures. By mentally manipulating cellular form to challenge its ...

In my work, I strive to combine conceptual bricolage and drawing by using different and sometimes unrelated ideas and systems that I possess to create drawings. This often requires calling upon physical objects and subjects ...

This body of work draws from real spaces, nature, and the process of applying paint. This leads to me to consider spaces outside and inside, natural phenomena, time, and movement.

With an initial concept and visual in mind, each finished work transforms from what I imagined or intended to express at the start. I work in a series of layers, responding to each layer as I consider how each decision ...

Lost objects intrigue me. Lost objects have been tossed aside by someone who had assumed they were useless, while others were unknowingly dropped on the sidewalk or street. Some were deliberately thrown into the trash ...

My work necessitates experience—the interactivity of the viewer and the piece. One must get physically involved in order to understand. If there is no engagement, if the trigger is not set off, one has no way of ...

Drawing has the power to construct such an honest relationship between artist and observer. In its traditional and most foundational sense, drawing is an observational and communicative assembly of mark-making. Drawing ...

The nature of cultural changes over time, in a broad sense, is where my work originates. My initial investigations have stemmed from my experiences working in long-term memory care and have generated ideas regarding ...

A colleague once described my work as “sophisticated glitter.” The idea that glitter, which is a cheap material and considered kitsch, may be transformed into sophistication, has compelled me to create works of art ...

Through figurative narratives, my paintings illustrate elements of the human experience. Specifically, my work brings attention to the disconnect between human beings and their physical and psychological existence. Using ...