STATEMENT
My work moves between painting, printmaking, and photography. This practice involves the overlap of mark-making, color, pattern, and surface explorations.
Painting begins with brushstrokes (gesture, the rhythm of the hand, chance) or a memory of color, of an object, or the body. Whether exuberant or melancholy (or both), painting calls up the residue of a lingering emotion.
Printmaking offers a vehicle to translate sketchbook drawings into graphic layers, and experience the optical and tactile suspense–then surprise–of ink, press and paper meeting.
Using the camera as a painting tool to collect color, pattern, and shadow in optical interactions. Casting a wide net, from cinema (often noir) to architecture to hallucinogenic lighting effects.
My work has been shown in New York and San Francisco. I have a studio in San Francisco’s Mission district and am presently an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.