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My work is based on an awareness of material and process
that I develop through experimentation and play in the studio. I seek to draw
out and elaborate upon the tension between the given and the chosen; both in
conceptualization of the work and in the materials I select. Each piece begins
from a moment’s attention- something I see, hear or read in the world or a
piece of a discarded earlier work in my studio. From there, I construct the work governed by rules implicit
in the chosen materials, choosing to either stay within, bend, or completely
break those rules. I try to keep
things simple, leaving room for the viewer to engage in visual, mental play
with the work. As Mel Bochner
says, “we have to be careful not to confuse means and ends, to substitute
drawing or color relationships [formalism] for the real content of painting [or
art], which is its ability to move people.”
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