Artist Statement

My recent work is borne of ongoing reflection on—and resistance to—what I feel is an over-reliance on mediated experiences of life, usually through one screen or another. They’re also in reaction to the glorification of data as a means of understanding the world: I create paintings to facilitate an experience (for myself and the viewer) that transcends the various algorithms we so readily give ourselves to—paintings that speak from beyond our ability to classify and measure.

Painting for me is essentially therapeutic, a means of coming back to center—a kind of prayer. My hope is that what emerges in the process of making is something that connects me to you, perhaps in ways we don’t yet have language for but feel and understand intuitively. I hope that in seeing myself more clearly, I can better see you—that we might come to recognize each other even in the dark.