In my paintings, I explore the complexity of recollection, loss, and comfortable nostalgia. When I was six, my father took me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time. Afterwards, he stopped a random passer-by and asked him to snap a picture of the two of us. It is a photo I still cherish, but my memory of the event is more fluid-a combination of moving shapes, colors, sounds, and scents. As an artist I celebrate and mourn warm moments of my childhood, and interpret how memories can transform, grow cold, and erode with the passage of time. I am interested in the complexity of the recollection of loss, and the morbid inevitability of loss.
I layer oil paint mixed with multiple mediums over acrylic washes that simultaneously form abstract and decorative imagery. My use of oil paint reinforces that forms can be concealed, but never erased. I warp my patterns and shapes by scrubbing, wiping out, and painting them over.
I layer oil paint mixed with multiple mediums over acrylic washes that simultaneously form abstract and decorative imagery. My use of oil paint reinforces that forms can be concealed, but never erased. I warp my patterns and shapes by scrubbing, wiping out, and painting them over.