Statement, 2017
As a child I wanted to be an architect. I loved to make drawings of house designs. That interest has been with me always and has been a underlying aesthetic factor in all my work. The interface between humans and our reliance on structures contrasted with organic, outdoor environments informs most of my work. And there is always an awareness that achieving a balance between the natural world and the man made has become more fraught and precarious. My artwork attempts to reconcile the two and create pieces that examine both the discord and harmony.
As a child I wanted to be an architect. I loved to make drawings of house designs. That interest has been with me always and has been a underlying aesthetic factor in all my work. The interface between humans and our reliance on structures contrasted with organic, outdoor environments informs most of my work. And there is always an awareness that achieving a balance between the natural world and the man made has become more fraught and precarious. My artwork attempts to reconcile the two and create pieces that examine both the discord and harmony.
I create the large two dimensional prints through collage and reconstruction. In both my paintings and prints I work in a layered, additive and subtractive way which allows me to build a complexity of related images.
The sculptures began by creating three dimensional pieces on which to base a series of drawings. I became intrigued with exploring space and moving away from flat pieces. In this sense, they became like 3D paintings. The sculptural prints are an extension of the painted wood sculptures, but make use of the translucency of the paper and allow for the passage of light. Creating sculptures pushes me to think beyond the frame.
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