Artist Biography: 

Biography

Artist Statement: 

Artist Statement

Artist Curriculum Vitae: 

CV

My work explores painting as a place of interaction and reflection where human presence completes the work.

The large paintings approach a scale normally reserved for sculpture and architecture. As in architecture the materials and means of the paintings serve to define the surrounding space rather than fictive space. Each painting presents a single color on a vast scale. Installed facing the wall, the painting is approached from the back, creating a private viewing space. This installation encourages a close, physical experience of color – there is no backing-off. The color extends laterally to such a degree that the viewer is completely immersed. These works, though mural-sized, retain the intimacy of easel painting.

There is an intimacy in the smaller work too. Densely layered over a period of years, a balance of color and mark emerges denying illusory space. The paintings project a presence not unlike a portrait – an abstract gaze. In each I seek a separate, poetic whole that faces the viewer with presence and clarity, alive in the insistent, evident humanity of its construction.