Statement
In my work, I am interested in pushing the boundaries of figuration, and creating pictures that investigate aspects of human experience. I make paintings that are characterized by vivid color, distortion, and uncanny juxtapositions. My new and ongoing body of work is titled “Dreams in Action”. These paintings are depictions of multiverses where boundaries between past and present, real and mythic, are indistinct. In this work, I am interested in visualizing dream logic, and in delivering the fantastical with the force of reality, merging fact and fiction. My imagery is culled from a range of sources that include personal and collective experience, popular culture, psychology, mythology, cartoons, and art history. My paintings are meditations on identity (in particular female identity), memory, the body, nature, time, mortality, and place. In addition, I am interested in opposites such as trauma and resilience, and fragmentation and wholeness. My process is to mine the subconscious, beginning with collages, which are utilized as points of departure for the creation of complex paintings. Ultimately, I aim to build a new folklore capable of describing the vast complexity of our contemporary moment.