Artist Statement 2016-2017

ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent artistic direction in painting is to explore the relationship between form, shape, line, and space and how they interact organically and sensuously. Holding onto a brush, the paintings I am producing are amplified by the use of colors; I make incremental changes, adding, subtracting, rearranging, and layering in the developmental process. I do not have imageries planned a head of time. The result of my paintings emerge from working in an intuitively manner depending how I am feeling and responding while painting. I like to include motifs, metaphors or idioms in compelling works of art that evoke feelings, thoughts, and responses in the viewers with a sense of familiarity, but at the same time lacking a point of reference, leaving it to the viewers to engage by absorbing, responding, and fostering a meaningful dialogue with my paintings.