Contradiction provides a frame for my paintings as they collapse opposing forms and meanings within a single plane. Tensions are generative. In making each piece, I embrace its unique antilogic of confusion and complication. I am interested in how a vibrating mess exists within the static boundaries of a painting.
Layering with transparencies and opacities in paint mirrors feelings and different phenomena contained within the body. This visualized strata of memories, anxieties, and desires depicts the poetry of my lived experience, encompassing its precariousness, humor, and quotidian entropy.
Pigments, fabrics, and plastics are used together in both certainty and chance. Certainty is the origin point: a study, or an idea. The outcome’s parameters are partially
predetermined, a function that lets me playfully veer away from the script. Through starting with controlled conditions, a foundation is laid so that I can feel embodied and spontaneous.
Gestures of paint index different temporalities, tones, and voices. Paintings are interconnected by a loose narrative string within a specific library of images. Machine parts, figures, and spectral forces appear. Some are fragmented. Nightlife, street crowds, and urban flora exude fluid possibilities against the grain of fixed systems.
Depicted bodies are slippery and malleable. Identity is masked and transcended through forms
of recognition that echo into playful uncertainty. My figures dance around power structures and romp through wonderful, unknown spaces. Groupings mingle to laugh at and with hierarchies. Laughter and pleasure are cyclical acts that subvert and pervert conventions. Bodies, like nature, can mutate, regenerate, and survive. Somehow, like a layered painting, they hold all their experience of contradiction together in one vessel.