Statement:

My work centers around an idea, and then I move that idea through different art mediums. I draw and paint on a variety of surfaces such as marble, tile, film, fabric, paper and canvas. A specific idea often leads me to invent a new way of using materials, and this I find very exciting. My experience as a public artist and muralist has influenced me to work large scale. I also enjoy the immediacy of working very small, making multiples of painting or drawings with slight variations.

I explore different kinds of light, particularly translucency. Translucency has an in-between quality that suspends light within the layers of a piece. I am currently engaged with concepts around columns, caryatids, ruins, and excavations in their various stage of unearthing as a way to frame history and culture. These visual ideas are created through transparency, opacity, tracing, and fragmenting, and tap into a collective sense of time, place, and memory.