Artists

My work uses thick and thin paper cut into shapes and designed so that everyone can build in their mind’s eye an interpretation shaped by the art design. Although I make the art in collaboration with the medium, the viewer of the art creates anew their own interpretation.

My illustrative painting practice often feature interiors filled with objects that delight me - by painting these intimate spaces, filled with those objects of desire, I fulfill and curb my own consumerist urges and dreams for love and companionship.

My work is a reflection of what I see within this world and how my mind transforms it. As I translate my physical and mental emotions, I extract shapes, patterns and colors as visual metaphors.

Utilizing fantastical elements, I restore parts of humanity that have been stripped, lost, or forgotten in order to cultivate healing and empathy.

My imagery derives from compositions I witness as I live out my life, selected because they speak to me emotionally while at the same time reminding me of the inherent beauty in the world, hidden in plain sight.

I love charcoal for its immediacy, its responsiveness and surprises. This drawing of Pines Lake, my home now, is an atmospheric study of water, distance, and light.

This collage is one piece of an ongoing archival project that uses folders made from pulped dictionaries as a way to explore and reconsider the boundaries that distinguish linguistic and theoretical categories.

There is an inherent beauty in commonly observed views which I am trying to portray in a fresh and unconventional manner. I love geometric shapes against the sky.