Artist Statement

My paintings occupy a space between abstraction and representation, drawing from a visual vocabulary shaped by design, architecture, film, furniture, industrial forms, and other familiar objects.

Working intuitively, I build images through a process that resembles collage, layering forms, fragments, and references into compositions that evolve through addition, revision, and concealment. Influenced by experimental film, I think about structure, sequencing, rhythm, and the coexistence of disparate elements within a single visual field. I often think of my paintings as a series of scaffoldings, where forms appear, disappear, and reemerge as the work develops. 

Underlying the work is a sensibility shaped by coming of age in California during the postwar era, a time marked by optimism, experimentation, and fascination with the future. Surrounded by a culture of making in garages or backyards where things were constantly being built, repaired, or invented, I developed a way of seeing that has informed my work. Recurring objects in my paintings, including chairs, vehicles, and architectural elements, have remained with me for many years. I am drawn to them because of the way they were made, the eras they evoke, and the associations they carry. 

Rather than illustrating specific memories, the work assembles fragments of visual experience into images that feel at once familiar and uncertain. Through ambiguity and layered imagery, I hope the work remains open to multiple interpretations, leaving room for viewers to bring their own associations and discover something unexpected.