BIOGRAPHY
My work engages the tension between pictorial space and material surface to operate on both abstract and representational levels. In this way landscape is considered as a subjective, psychological space operating as a memory of a place. At the same time I am also addressing the memory of the material, the memory of paint to mimic other forms of the physical world. The paintings deal with the multiplicity of phenomena, flux, a perpetual becoming through the random pours and drips, mixtures of incompatibale mediums that crack and craze, and the suggestion of multiple viewing points.
The engagement with the tension between pictorial space and material surface is not intended to reinforce a nature/culture binary opposition but rather considers the idea of synthesis by collapsing surface and material, illusion and memory. My process is driven by the unique material properties of various concoctions of paint and techniques ranging from collage, pouring and airbrushing. The collage I deploy is akin to the Surrealist technique of decalcomania; by finding subconscious form in the materials. Random drips morph into stalactites or gnarled twists of a tree trunk; marbled passages of paint coalesce into eroded valleys, monochrome flows are frozen into glaciers or snowy peaks.
