Artist Statement
A reevaluation of earlier work incorporating symmetry and composition within the grid led to a reduced emphasis on manipulated images as a primary concern in my current pieces. Ideas I am now interested in have shifted from being based on found images (and less on formal concerns) to works using a grid based structure and self-imposed ‘rules’ guiding the placement and organization of elements through the primary stages of developing a work.
This results in structured, progressive changes while building the images from an underlying skeleton to a specific concentration of lines covering the surface. A reactive process of erasure, redrawing and material overlay is then used to delineate geometric forms within the mass of line work, which ultimately becomes the final composition.
Active surfaces and perceived space are created in the drawings through this process of accrued layering, selected removal of specific areas or with the addition of textures and layers in the form and background. I work toward developing a seductively uncomfortable optical experience, emphasizing visual and textural differences where the figure and ground are equally present.
This process, with a circumscribed structure, reveals a multitude of choices and directions to investigate in developing artwork. I approach each piece trying to find the logic and essence of what can be done visually with each decision and in each step of the process.