Most recently I have been making paintings, collages, and printed materials that play off one another in both their similarities and differences. In Infinite Sampling each row, from top to bottom, begins with the original drawing on the left and each subsequent drawing begins with a digital print of it’s predecessor. It is altered using hand processes including watercolor, drawing, painting, sewing and collage. The overall grid format maintains a structure that allows for both individual and collective readings of each drawing. Looped and Runaway are from a series of 10 paintings made while in residence at the Headlands Center for The Arts. These paintings all share a similar format of a partial rectangle within a rectangle and interrupted by passages of purely abstract gestural marks. These paintings reference previous abstract painting histories including abstract expressionism, staining, geometric abstraction, op art, pattern and decoration and street graffiti. I layer these visual languages repeatedly to create a dense hybrid aesthetic that is new but refers to the past.

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Infinite Sampling, 2010
55 drawings, each approximately 7.5 x 10 inches, digital pigment print, acrylic paint, pencil, thread and collage


Runaway, 2010,
16.5 x 21 inches, acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas
Looped, 2010,
16.5 x 21 inches, acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas