Recent Work

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  Silhouette-Shadow

  These pieces are the core of my work. They are about what it feels like for me to walk quietly through the city and explore what we do and don’t see in the act of looking. They are about dreaming and remembering as much as they are about living in the city.

  Making these works is part of a multi-step process. The paintings are developed on top of compositions I create by cutting away hardboard to form silhouettes. After cutting the hardboard, I roll the surface with ink and create a limited series of relief prints. The prints allow me to explore the same forms and imagery through multiple media. The two halves of the diptychs are mirrored images: the hardboard wood-block and a corresponding relief print.

  Next I return to the original cut hardboards, painting them with imagery from nature: landscapes, cloudscapes, and more. Finally, I float-mount them, setting the pieces away from the wall to create a shadow layer behind them. The interplay of figure and space, color, form, and void hint at how we experience the not-so-simple acts of walking and looking and being.

  There are 12 images in this gallery

  Last updated: February 17, 2009 - 4:52pm

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  Printmaking

  I began experimenting with printmaking as a way to study color and forms for use in my paintings. I was immediately taken in by the techniques and processes, and by the ways that serigraphs and monographs are like and unlike paintings.

  At this point, printmaking has become a central portion of my process, which taken as a whole crosses multiple media. I cut hardboard to silhouettes, use these silhouettes as wood-blocks for relief-printing, and then as the foundations for oil-paintings. I can then hang the prints and the painted block from which they were made together as a diptych, or simply consider the different works as various explorations of the same source imagery.

  There are 11 images in this gallery

  Last updated: February 20, 2009 - 1:29pm

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  Drawings and Watercolors

  Drawing in charcoal, pencil, pen, or with my Cotman watercolor kit—really any drawing tool—is a pure pleasure to me. While the drawings are frequently made as references and resources for paintings, prints, or other works, they are also completed pieces in their own right.

  I offer drawing classes to share this joy with students of any experience level, whether they are looking to return to basics after years of process work, or pick up a piece of charcoal for the first time. Please contact me if you’re interested in Start From Where You Are: A Drawing Class for Students of All Levels.

  There are 9 images in this gallery

  Last updated: June 11, 2007 - 10:58pm