During the creation of my paintings, I find myself engaged in a question. The answers, resolutions or ongoing dilemmas are explored during the period of conception and execution. I am interested in issues of identity: how does the internal world (with its history, expectations, perceptions and digestive nature) interact with external reality? How does the personal, private domain react to the curveballs, thrown within interpersonal dynamics, the struggling global currents and the culture’s mercurial temperaments. And what about life’s storehouse of incredible beauty?
My paintings often depict an internal landscape: a place where we absorb, process, sublimate and sometimes let things fester.
I am searching for a home for past experiences, which seem to shift shape as time goes by. By exploring different narrative threads, I observe the way that time rewrites old stories. At times, my paintings are explorations of what glorious happiness can look like when sandwiched by sorrow and doubt. My work is very connected to my identity as a woman, a former girl and a current adult, in charge of manifesting my generation’s work.
Through my art, I fuse past and present. I traverse the regions where memories and sensations can appear out of nowhere. The smallest of details can become important elements in the building of one’s identity. They can also impact large places that once were of central importance.
My artistic kinships range from the surrealists; Salvador Dali, Merritt Oppenhiem, to the personal works of Georgia O’Keefe, Frida Kahlo, and Florine Stettheimer to the bubbling exuberance of Elizabeth Murray and un-self conscious generosity of Tom Knechtal. I approach my paintings like poems, hoping to discover some small truth through the meditation and act of creation.
