Artist Statement
My abstract works on paper which I will be showing at open studios contain dense and atmospheric areas. The latter abut, alternating with one another in varying widths across the support. They also break out into embedded, floating bits. Fitted vertical and diagonal lines are also present. All of these elements align to shape a painting’s space. They do this in manners that both affirm and deny its support.
These inclinations reflect my first and earlier years in Florida and the Midwest. Fall mists in Missouri and Iowa brought sky and ground forth and up. Hovering heat defined Summer. Time and space flipped up. It also pushed down. Hanging, fecund North Florida Spanish Moss alternated dark verticals with light.
The “sounds” in Charles Burchfield’s skies and trees are an influence. Joan Mitchell harkening Van Gogh is too. I sense kinship with Cy Twombly’s baroque and Lee Mullican’s reverberations.
The urge to engage viscerally, via perceiving, unearthing and “pointing to” in painting is buttressed by these forebearers as well as contemporaries Jorinde Voight, Heide Fasnacht and Julie Mehretu.
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
Community Partner Sponsor for Open Studio Hudson 2023. https://timeandspace.org
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.