Artist Statement

My practice encompasses painting and sculpture guided by structure, gesture and material tension, and by a fascination with opposing states. Across layered surfaces and interwoven forms, I return to grids, circles, knots, bands, and fragments, exploring the relationship between balance and chaos, control and surrender, abstraction and recognition.

Material process is central to my practice. I build each work through accumulation, interruption, and revision, preserving traces of what came before. Each composition begins with an understructure that acts as a scaffold or stage, shaped by the drama of Baroque and Rococo art and by personal symbols drawn from systems, history, and memory. Over time, this ground is disrupted by veils of paint and gestural marks that are added, partially dissolved, and reworked into an abstract world that holds movement and stillness in balance.

The friction between the intuitive and the deliberate reflects how I experience the world: layered, emotional, and in constant negotiation with rules, patterns, and systems.