Artist Statement:
Every place around the world that is visible to us fits within a system. In my work I use elements of landscape and architecture as starting points in the project of mapping space. I see all the components of the external world installed together like a 3-dimensional puzzle. In analyzing the world, I am trying to simplify it into its essential parts and then re-complicate it through formal and material choices in my work. I take inputs from the natural world and transform them into a new fragmented surface of abstract shapes, textures, and mysterious breaks in perspectives.
I intend for a viewer to sense the presence of the landscape in my work, but to be thrown off by the abnormalities. I want my paintings to sustain interest over a long period, slowly revealing the small-scale worlds and multiple perspectives that exist within the structure of the whole painting. These elements of mystery are intended to keep the viewer caught in a state of questioning: what kind of space is this? What is happening within this environment? Approaching the work, the audience hovers between the familiar and the otherworldly. What is viewed or interpreted is an experience within itself and can be determined by the audience every time these paintings are studied.
Exhibitions:
•April 2012 • “Systems” , Solo Exhibition. Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery-Providence College; Providence, RI
•October-December 2013 • “Array Part II”, Group Exhibition The Flying Chicken (restaurant), Troy NY
•November 2013- December 2013 • “Out of the Woods”, Group Exhibition Albany Barn, Albany, NY
•November 2014-December 2013 • “Festival of Miniatures”, Group Exhibition Sorelle Gallery, Albany NY
•March 2014- May 2014 • “Thawed Out”, Group Exhibition The Flying Chicken (restaurant), Troy, NY
•March 2014 – May 2014 • ‘First Look’, Group Exhibition Albany Barn, Albany, NY
•April 2014 – August 2014 • Artwork in Restaurant, Group Exhibition New World Bistro, Albany NY
•June 2014 • Artist Feature, Sorelle Gallery, Albany NY
•July 2014 – August 2014 • ‘Hot Fun in the Summertime’, Group Exhibition AJ Dillon Art Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
•July 10-13, 2014 • ArtHamptons 2014, Sculpture Fields of Nova’s Ark in Bridgehampton, NY
•August 2014 • ‘Outside Inside’, Group Exhibition Kings Place, Albany, NY
•August 2014 • Integrate Arts Festival, Group Exhibition Victoria, BC, Canada
•November 2014 • Solo Exhibition, Sorelle Gallery, Albany NY
•November 2014 • ‘HERstory’ Group Exhibition Albany Barn, Albany, NY
•November 2014 • Giclee/Print Show, Group Exhibition, Sorelle Gallery, Albany NY
•November 2014 • Holiday Miniature Show, Group Exhibition, Sorelle Gallery, Albany NY
•November 2014 • Invitation International Art Exhibition, Vancouver, BC Canada
•December 2014 • ‘Gifted’ Holiday Show, Albany Barn, Albany NY
•February 2015 • 'DE|CONSTRUCT' Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan, CT
•May 2015 • Solo Exhibition, 8-count studios, Tampa FL
Artist Tags:
abstract, landscape, geometric, abstract art, abstract landscape, acrylic
