Artist Statement

I create abstract art with a focus on gestural abstraction, mark-making, geometry, and color. My work begins with rudimentary shapes or forms. As I explore their properties they often mutate and interact in unexpected ways. Additionally, I find that certain colors seem to resonate with each other. I find it valuable to view multiple finished works together, either actively or unconsciously. Sometimes, just seeing multiple works near each other through my peripheral vision will inspire one or more new works. In this way my discoveries continually compound and combine to yield new ones.

Common occurrences in my work include unsteady, meandering lines, dark voids of smudged charcoal, childlike shapes painted in pastel or lightly desaturated hues, and imperfect geometric forms. In these imagined worlds the space between objects is equally as important as the space occupied by objects. Common themes include science, nature, futurism, and the supernatural. I hope to build a visual world which is strange, playful, intriguing and enduring.

I am based in Cleveland, Ohio.