ARTIST STATEMENT
My entire life has been engaged in making art whether it be drawing, painting, printmaking or assemblage. Generally the initial concept of a piece is transformed through the process, becoming then transcending the materials as they get laid down, layered, scraped up, repositioned, painted out, or painted over until the piece ultimately comes together. I contrive and intuit when I work hoping that the piece captivates the viewer as much as it has the artist.
My work can question what it means to be human in a world that now and again asks that we deny our humanity or, as in my “Not a Landscape” series, investigate what and how we see.
Color is used both as a dramatic counter point and as an abstract element. I strive to create intelligent, beautiful work which, hopefully, initiates dialogue when experienced. Influences would be Joseph Cornell, Lenore Szesko, Joan Mitchell, the Cubists, and the world in which I live.