Artist Statement
The poet uses letters, the musician uses notes, and the painter uses brushstrokes. The work can either be realistic or abstract, simple or complex, concrete or ethereal. Though, in the purest form, all artists’ creations are fundamentally a composition of marks. The artist arranges these marks to construct the atmosphere, the image, the illusion, and to provide the audience with an experience that enlightens, entertains or evokes emotion.
Lead by intuition and through my use of a seemingly rigid grid structure of brushstrokes, squares and organic shapes, I create illusions of space, light and form that allow the viewer to choose what experience they desire; whether to view the work simply as a captivating use of color and pattern or to discover what imagery may or may not emerge from below the surface. I want the viewer to step back, get closer, to look from the left and to look from the right, to fully examine the work and to answer the inevitable question of “what is it?” I want the viewer to be the puzzle solver; is the entire drawing or painting as a whole the important idea or are the marks themselves, or the effects of light catching the texture of the brushstrokes the focus? Or is it the color, or the viewers’ interactions with the work that is the subject matter?
It is my goal to make art that is enjoyable to view and creates this dialogue of trying to understand what’s going on and to make sense of the illusion. Each viewer may see something different, have a response different from another, or be transported to a place different than the next. I cannot control the responses but merely lead the viewer to a possible conclusion. In the end, Life and Art (and our interpretation of them) are a matter of Perspective.
Lead by intuition and through my use of a seemingly rigid grid structure of brushstrokes, squares and organic shapes, I create illusions of space, light and form that allow the viewer to choose what experience they desire; whether to view the work simply as a captivating use of color and pattern or to discover what imagery may or may not emerge from below the surface. I want the viewer to step back, get closer, to look from the left and to look from the right, to fully examine the work and to answer the inevitable question of “what is it?” I want the viewer to be the puzzle solver; is the entire drawing or painting as a whole the important idea or are the marks themselves, or the effects of light catching the texture of the brushstrokes the focus? Or is it the color, or the viewers’ interactions with the work that is the subject matter?
It is my goal to make art that is enjoyable to view and creates this dialogue of trying to understand what’s going on and to make sense of the illusion. Each viewer may see something different, have a response different from another, or be transported to a place different than the next. I cannot control the responses but merely lead the viewer to a possible conclusion. In the end, Life and Art (and our interpretation of them) are a matter of Perspective.