The idea of connectedness inspires my painting, particularly the confluency between person and place, between what is inside and out. How does our environment affect our interior experience and vice versa? How do previous actions influence future ones? how does the left (of a painting) affect the right, the top the bottom, etc.
I explore the human form, not only visually, but as an energy center and a mind-state of possibility, depicting accidental fragility and a sense of randomness, blurring or dissolving the concreteness of forms. Things are happening elsewhere or are experienced peripherally, and the subjects are not always present.
Just as identity is always in flux, every moment changes its shape in response to the forces surrounding it and ‘the past’, on which the identity of the present moment rests, is never static.
(Moments of Being, Virginia Woolf)
I work mostly in oil. With transparent washes and gestural marks, I aim to depict accidental fragility and a sense of randomness - between the artificial and the real, transparency and opacity, depth and surface, and between human beings and their environment and each other.
I am honored and grateful to have been the recipient of the Frederieke Sanders Taylor (FST) Studio Project Fund Grant in 2023 and 2019, to have been a three-time recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2016, 2018, and 2019) and of The Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, issued by the Art Students League of New York in 2016. I have an M.F.A. in painting from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (2019).