“Sugar Poppy” 2026 Installation in progress: paper, house wrap, dye, house paint.
My work is an exploration of surfaces - those I find, create and alter. It is a layering of materials imprinted by the environment and adorned with an imperfect hand. Overlapping patterns are appropriated from common places. Temporary works, built of fragile components, spread without concern for boundary. Absent distinction between wall and work or attempts at illusion, these pieces show seams, edges and self-camouflage. It is a changing body, an experimentation of painting, drawing and sculpture.

A simple set of intentions drives my daily practice: to observe, to respond, to stumble and to take up space. I tear down the conventions of my own making and embrace chance. My work is an act of communication, as human as a stranger showing me pictures from their phone. No longer catering to a commercial polish, I am working in the present moment without a need to fit into category. Most personally, I believe that art combats social isolation and my work is meant to be accessible to that end.

What I make is strongly influenced by a daily studio practice. The space in which I work—a 100-year-old building—has been crucial in breaking the boundaries of the traditional picture plane. The crumbling, muted brick walls and oil stained floors are a dynamic companion to brightly drawn hues on lengthy, unrolled paper. Turbulence from trains and planes shudder my delicate surfaces, held together with medium, pins and tape. What appears as wispy, evening ghosts, the result of a scarred retina, requires a double-take and reconsideration of reality. This space, combined with lingering pandemic fallout, has guided me toward a broader, more immersive potential of art-making.

In the early days of lock-down, I was reminded by the visionary and outsider artists I had long admired, to use what is at hand. I scavenge other artists’ cast-offs: house wrap, canvas, paper, wood and wall paint. Those surfaces’ existing cuts and stains are a material collaboration, recorded and re-ordered. Finished works in the studio become “found objects,” another surface to break down. Extending beyond borders, spreading onto walls, floors and sharing space in between has resulted from the use of these materials and a long-earned worthiness to do so.