My work considers the formal, material, and perceptual possibilities of abstract visual language using a process-based painting approach.
I build up layers of color in an improvisational flow. Each piece becomes a site for gestures, impressions, residues, and excavations: an accumulation of mark-marking histories. I try to find ways to introduce moments of material serendipity in the work to bring about a dynamic image. My process is a carefully choreographed collaboration with chance.
Relying on nontraditional and industrial tools, I record the body in motion while disguising the hand, complicating the notion of authorship in the work. Marks are processed and manipulated. By layering these painted forms to create a transient image, I hope to communicate a sense of memory and the passage of time.
My work proposes the illusion of space while asserting its physicality in real space. Reflective and color-shifting pigments absorb into textured grounds to create surfaces that transform when seen from different viewing angles. I’m interested in the idea that seeing might become almost tactile, vision crossing over into touch.
My paintings draw from the beauty of daily aesthetic experience. New York City’s gritty urban surfaces and its less-traveled landscapes provide an endless source of inspiration, as do my travels. I’m fascinated by the quiet power of changing weather systems, atmospheric effects, geological phenomena, and the other countless ways in which the earth transforms in real time.
I’m also inspired by anthropology, Jewish mysticism, and psychology, and connect my painting practice with various genres of instrumental music, including contemporary jazz, ambient electronic, and drone music. I enjoy the way an idea or feeling can manifest in the studio, and, through the activity of thinking through paint, generate an abstract expression.
Abstraction, rather than “meaning” something, celebrates the process of meaning-making itself. The abstract invites associative, sensorial dialogue with the viewer and opens up new pathways of thought and interpretation. In a world flooded with images vying for our attention, abstract painting asks us to slow down and become present in time.
(2025)