SELECTED WORK
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My work primarily
deals
with the expressive qualities of color and paint. Through the use
of layering,
glazing, scraping
and scratching the paint surface, I have been investigating my
interests in the passage
of time, discovery
and the process of painting itself. I have been striving to
express my emotions, ideas
and experiences by
creating dynamic contrasts between opposites such as surface and depth,
structure
and fragmentation,
the sensual application of paint and spiritual contemplation. My
paintings attempt to
hold in tension
such opposites on the flat two-dimensional picture plane in order to
allow them to develop
a life of their
own. I paint in a very improvisational manner, and emphasize the
fluid and tactile immediacy
of the
materials. My ultimate goal is to transcend the
paint's materiality in order to create a visceral experience;
a
soulful response to color, form, texture and gesture.
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