I create large scale abstract acrylic paintings on raw canvas, combining graphite rubbings, layered washes of vivid color and obsessive mark-making that evoke textiles, body, earth and atmosphere.

I explore the overlap and urgency of autobiographical daily minutia, toxicity and nature– essentially, life and death– through abstract painting. My work is generative; each piece is source material for the next. For the past decade I’ve been proceeding this way and a vocabulary reflecting my daily life, interests and concerns has evolved. I include found materials and items from my studio, home and neighborhood that characterize political and societal issues in an intensely personal way. Process and materials drive my work, however the selection of synthetic, natural and chemical elements combined with textures directly lifted from my home lend the work personal resonance and harbor more universal considerations.

My work acknowledges the contradictions of the natural, synthetic, chemical and toxic world we live in. The natural imagery of woodgrain comes from pressure treated wood infused with chemicals intended to defy nature; seductive vivid color reflects the danger and potency of medically prescribed morphine.

Now I am at a crossroads, on the brink of new developments. Between 2017- 2019 I showed in museum, commercial galleries and non-profit spaces in New York, New Orleans, and Connecticut. My paintings are included in private and public collections. Still, I am looking for more.