About

 

 

Biography   

I consider my artwork a form of processing past experiences. I work in the style of action painting, and all of my work comes from a deeply meditative place. My mind slows and ruminates as my body becomes increasingly frenetic in its mark making. My palettes can be influenced by a mild form of auditory synesthesia.

I attended art school at a young age, and was mentored by an accomplished Sculptor and Painter. I have taught painting to young people in shelters and hospitals; I strongly believe the process of creating art can be therapeutic and transformative.

A collection of nineteen of my paintings were acquired by James and Andrea Gordon. Gordon serves on the Boards of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, et al.

My work can also be found in private collections throughout The United States, Asia, and Europe.
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My Studio is located in Suffolk County, New York.

 

 

Artist Statement

The driving force behind my paintings is an enduring interest in people; in feminist politics and in the human psyche; emotional resonance and the way it can manifest in our relationships with others.

Utilizing oil painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques, my work examines the personal and universal exchanges found in contemporary abstraction, yet through expressive color, gestural mark marking, and an unconscious and unintentional tendency toward the figurative, my work dislocates abstraction from historical structures.

Informed by American Abstract Expressionism and embracing exaggerated hues and boldly simplified or distorted forms, I intend to provoke and startle the viewer. When painting, I thrive on chaos and impulse, with its raw, immediate, and unflinching emotional extremes delivering a frenzied directness, which characterizes my work.

Layered, abstracted marks are cumulative, each revealing visceral and emotional intensities.
I attempt to draw the viewer inward to experience an encounter with the work and the collective unconscious.

The notion of temporality is central in my process; documenting human connections, dialogues and relationships as they change and shift over time. Fascinated by the development of an individual - the relation and dependence to others; imagery at times consists of the human form, in others the content contains raw emotion contained within my mark-making.

There is also a time-based quality to the physicality found in my work. Each piece is created rapidly over several days, layering oil paints. I strive to preserve and record the emotion I release in each painting. By working across multiple pieces at one time, documenting and recording my experiences, memory and emotional responses to the subject means that what lies beneath is sometimes subdued or intentionally hidden. I am compelled by what might be revealed and obscured by this approach.

​These compilations with abstraction and figurative imagery - sometimes masked, develop organically. Paintings made today are a response to the memories of yesterday.