STATEMENT

These paintings are documents detailing the process of their own creation. Some begin with an envisioned game plan, while others start with improvised gestures. Through a combination of strategy and intuition, additional layers accumulate. As the work begins to emerge, previous strategies shift. Subsequent actions respond to the painting as it is, no longer proceeding according to initial intentions. Each action is a decision undertaken with the goal bringing the work to fruition. Paint does not necessarily always behave as desired, occasionally leading to perceived failures. However, frustration itself can become a solution once notions of preciousness are abandoned. A willingness to obliterate what has been previously toiled over can sometimes illuminate an unexpected pathway to completion. Oftentimes, the final layer acts as a veil, both obscuring and revealing the underlying history. At times, there is a play between perception and actuality as what appears to be the background has in fact been added at the end. Yet the surface texture records many of these concealed decisions, mistakes, and corrections even if they are not otherwise outwardly visible. Here in these paintings, as in life, every choice has a consequence that in turn effects all subsequent decisions. Like jazz, they balance between imposed structure and inspired spontaneity.

 

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