| Artist's Statement |
Incongruous geometric constructs and abstract atmospheric environments are synthesized through a rich layering of wax and paint to create images intended to invoke primordial psychological and spiritual sensations unbound by the literal.
In the traditional sense of viewing a ‘canvas’ as a window into another world, throughout my work I portray two dramatically different visual landscapes, at times depicted as separate universes, though often times clearly linked, while other times they collide wildly -melding my fascination for systematically repeating geometric forms, with ambiguous organic plumes of color, shape and space.
The “out-of-focus” panoramas hint at the natural world, implying the existence of unidentified forms, they suggest spectacular, dynamic narratives akin to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner, yet dramatically veiled in a wild haze of pigment. The encaustic paintings are built up like bodies containing a swirling miasma of abstraction, yet contained within the sharp boundaries of the panel, and at times, obscured even more with additional formal geometric compositions both loose and structured, in a sense recalling a sort of amalgamation of Adriana Varejao’s stark tile work, and the concealed turmoil that emerges occasionally. Furthermore, in a fashion not dissimilar to Piet Mondrian, the constructs of lines and colored geometric structures are born from the desire to express general beauty, balancing harmony, rhythm, and truth –in this case, against nebulous gestural chaos.
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