Artist’s Statement

My work stretches traditional forms to encompass contemporary ideas of constructed identity and a fragmented self. I take a sensual, aggressive approach to my materials. approaching paint as both a liquid and as a sculptural material.

I am interested in the tenuous balancing act required to negotiate the gap between lived experience of the flesh and the norms projected by visual culture and art history. I work with growing root vegetables,angelic doll confections, and the mismatch between these metaphors for the body.

When I paint and repaint the sitter the object, the space, or myself, time passes. Every minute is unique. The impossibility of finding a fixed visual moment, a fixed conception of identity, or an edge, dogs my work. The act of painting becomes a practice of radical empathy, of walking within the skin of a person, an object, a space, or a historical practice. What remains is a residue–a history of overlapping moments and layered imagery that becomes a record of the consciousness that hangs between us.