about the artist
I am interested in an approach to art making that explores the often-conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions and geometric patterns found in many cultures and western modernism. However, my recent paintings avoid culturally specific matters, in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction. Inasmuch, my attempts to reflect a broader generational curiosity where the familiar and unfamiliar converge.
There is a view about art that seems intractably fixed in tradition and history. However, counter to this view is another mindset that understands art very differently: as a catalyst for imagination, speculation, and unscripted modes of knowing. I find art to be extremely useful and necessary to the health and well-being of society. However, as we know, health is a relative term, based on whether we experience it ourselves as good, moderate, or failing. The relationship between our spiritual well-being, physical bodies, and our state of mind is paramount - so it should be with our approach to art.
