Artist’s Statement
My paintings proceed organically following the same logic of a
dream or memory. I am interested in the space between the
psychological associations of memory and consciousness. How are
we to reconcile the weight of the past? What is memory? How does
it shape our perception? The discernable gesture in my work is
in response to memories of growing up in a conservative,
suburban neighborhood outside of Houston, Texas. A punk cadence
manifests grounded in the tradition of gestural abstraction
translating visually the angst of growing up in an environment
at odds with my true self.
The reconstructing and deconstructing of an image is similar
to times affect on lived experience. The resulting images
flicker back and forth between solidarity and dissolution. My
intent is to capture a visual dialogue between the disclosure
and concealing of my own memory with that of the paintings. The
dialogue between the paintings history and my own dictates the
final image, conceptually framing a territory that is not mired
in despair or compromised by one overt theoretical position;
instead these works look for multiplicity and plurality. |
