Thesis Exhibition: March 19 - 22, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, March 21, 6 - 8:30pm

Through repetitive processes and systems that are precise but imperfect, I explore our collective need for visual order. If we focus decisively, and as a result lose ourselves in structure and geometry, is the chaos in our minds then free to unravel?

My recent paintings seek to transmit knowledge through concealment.
Motivated by a deep desire to play with comprehension, and sensitive to an awareness that objects hold only as much importance and interest as we provide to them, I create paintings in which the notions and drives to which I am attached as a creator are free to exist without being illustrated. I am interested in what gets lost in translation, in the slippage that occurs when one tries to express a notion visually and but then gives it the liberty to evolve and be forgotten. The result is a body of work that slows the viewer down and is as much about looking as it is about understanding. 

My current practice is primarily a two dimensional one: I make paintings as self-reflective visual statements, drawings as a place for experimentation, planning, trial and error and any other work as additional research. Drawing is an important component of my practice for its ability to be simultaneously a finished product and an ever-questioning draft.