Artifacts of the studio, letters of poetry; to me painting is all at once malleable and reflective, stagnant and precarious, familiar and compulsive. I make paintings that act like magnets for aesthetic information of varying status. Looking outward into visual culture, back into art history, and around our everyday environments, I combine imagery and materials of opposing taste and value. My work is a reflection of the environment it is made in, my studio acts a laboratory for experimentation and inquiry.

Borders, contradictory in nature, simultaneously reveal and conceal; they both define and collapse the identity and purpose of a space. My work explores the elusive aspects of a structure that, despite its familiarity, remains unknowable. I investigate this struggle in the ambiguous and unresolved limbo of the home. Incomplete structures, formally and conceptually, create in-between spaces where the void and the defining line interact and coexist. They are compromised. They are unsettled. They are points of departure and arrival, overlapping one another and striving for identity.

My art practice is an open, playful exploration of materials and forms that engage my subjects, both public and private. Play and intuition encourage the uncanny emergence of multiple meanings, the effect being sensual, sometimes sexual and humorous, while evoking issues of identity and politics.

Employing seductive materials such as sparkly vinyl, liquid acrylics, and metal foils as well as images downloaded from the Internet, my paintings are indebted to process art, encompassing notions of the body, improvisational art making, and the unconventional use of materials.

My paintings represent the obscure that can be found in the mundane. They present humor where an undiscerning eye sees the commonplace. The scenes of urban waste I paint symbolize our commodified, throwaway American culture. A fast-paced, “out with the old, in with the new” consumer culture is something I, as a middle-class American, can strongly relate to. This idea, combined with its precise execution, informs my body of work. Applying rich detail and focusing primarily on the artistic elements of space, composition, and color, I enhance idiosyncrasies I find within the ordinary.