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I am
interested in how painting can reveal something about the nature of perception
and its relationship to meaning. The tools of our visual understanding- how we
make since of the physical world through light, color, shape, line, texture and
perspective- can be purposed to propose an experience that expands beyond the
visible landscape into a space of perception previously unseen. It is a rare
venue open to inquiry; visual play and flexible thinking reveal something about
how we understand, and about how meaning is constructed. I believe that
painting is well positioned to engage ambitions of both viewer and artist that
are beyond words.
In the last few years I have begun to re-evaluate the fundamental
elements of visual language and how they function within abstraction. This has
lead me toward a more careful consideration of how an abstract image is
constructed and how it makes sense or can challenge a sense of visual logic. I define myself as a
painter, and believe that the content of my work is unequivocally within the
domain of painting, however, my investigations have begun to lead me toward a
more expansive definition of what painting is, what context it can be found in
and form it can take.
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