"presence:absence" 1:36 minutes; 2006

Project Details

---

I hear the murmurings of poetry in each mark and brushstroke I make; the paint itself, completely plastic and full of possibility is the perfect vehicle for metaphor and essentially poetic in its material nature. While it can depict that which is empirical and observational it always holds out part of itself for the expression of what is known without words and felt without reason.

By eliminating recognizable references in favor of a rigorously reduced and abstracted construction of space, color is used to create atmospheres that aspire to the intangible weight of the sublime while simultaneously acknowledging the hierarchy of the surface structure and the materiality of the experience. I do not mean to depict an illusionist and chiaroscuro interpretation of space whose task is to seduce the viewer into believing in something which is not but rather to identify the spatial movements that map and quantify a potential experience not necessarily observational but physical nonetheless -- a story of space. The paintings may be installed as individual pieces or effectively grouped panoramically or in a grid-configuration to create an expanded composition and dialogue.