Painting and drawing serves as a gateway into my personal life. Experimental and expressive, my work stems from a number of traumatic childhood memories, current incidents, and personal beliefs. Each individual composition allows me to channel a unique moment in my life.
My work varies in size. I determine the size by the medium I am using and the idea I wish to portray. Having this variation in my work allows me to create an ongoing conversation with an audience. My process also varies; I can begin a composition with sketches, or I can begin intuitively and expressively without a clear concept in mind. Regardless of how I begin, there is a constant discourse during the process. I constantly ask myself: what are the qualities of the materials being used, how can they be used to best fit my concept and what do the lines and colors I choose suggest? Maintaining this conversation serves as a mediating element with my personal life and the medium I work with.
Each of my paintings communicates with me differently. With a palette knife and a loaded brush in hand, I saturate the canvas. By applying and scraping off paint with a palette knife, I instinctively build the composition through distinct depths of space in layers of color and pigment. The painting slowly builds while stimulating memories of my life evoked by means of a symbolic vocabulary. With the belief that life is both perceived physically and spiritually, I emphasize this idea by deviating from abstraction and realism. Inspired by British painter Cecily Brown, my paintings incorporate and blend recognizable things in an abstract environment that reflects experiences in my life.
My work varies in size. I determine the size by the medium I am using and the idea I wish to portray. Having this variation in my work allows me to create an ongoing conversation with an audience. My process also varies; I can begin a composition with sketches, or I can begin intuitively and expressively without a clear concept in mind. Regardless of how I begin, there is a constant discourse during the process. I constantly ask myself: what are the qualities of the materials being used, how can they be used to best fit my concept and what do the lines and colors I choose suggest? Maintaining this conversation serves as a mediating element with my personal life and the medium I work with.
Each of my paintings communicates with me differently. With a palette knife and a loaded brush in hand, I saturate the canvas. By applying and scraping off paint with a palette knife, I instinctively build the composition through distinct depths of space in layers of color and pigment. The painting slowly builds while stimulating memories of my life evoked by means of a symbolic vocabulary. With the belief that life is both perceived physically and spiritually, I emphasize this idea by deviating from abstraction and realism. Inspired by British painter Cecily Brown, my paintings incorporate and blend recognizable things in an abstract environment that reflects experiences in my life.