Statement

My paintings are isolated ecologies that geometric forms materialize out of and disappear into. Each painting develops from and within a single-colored ground, which acts like a supple membrane, airy atmosphere, syrupy pool, or waxy skin that forms can sink into, emerge from, or sit on top of. As the forms do not overlap or touch and are contained within the boundaries of the surface, they possess an otherworldly isolation that spotlights lateral relationships. Currently, each painting includes two or three distinct “types” of forms powered by group dynamics: affiliation, hierarchy, gestalt, abnormality, and competition. By considering particular energies and gravities, groups of forms activate, are activated by, or feel bound to independent forms or anomalies, pushing and pulling on each other as they hover and orbit. Guided by mysterious yet palpable forces, the result is a spatial physics in which forms settle into purposeful formations, like impossible celestial systems, strange microscopic or atomic structures, or arrangements of ritualistic objects.