the pedestals on which we stand, mixed media, 2009

My work is diverse in its representations. That said, I believe that the embodiment of the content through anthropomorphic ideologues and the universal themes of passage and architecture remain prevalent. I seek to inject subtexts through formal elements such as pressure, asymmetric balance and lack of “finish” in order to engage the viewer.

I believe strongly in the synthesis of the subconscious with the conscious as an informant and underlying structure to my art making. I do not rely upon an automatic painting or drawing language when approaching my work, but rather a process of constant excavation and reinterpretation.
I have centralized negation and reinterpretation in my work in order to sustain an associative dialogue with myself. Negation, the act of covering, produces a hierarchy of things allowed to speak and things that are censured. I begin working from a sense of internalized place based upon experience. Through repainting and/or drawing, this synergism is activated within the work and enables me to find a space that embodies a sense of self understood through the layers of internal and external (beyond self), invented and real, the abject physical body and the metaphoric body, and the relationship between self-image and self-knowledge.

Issues of feminism, childhood, power, sexuality and choice are represented within my work. My work also reflects the influence of popular culture’s media, specifically animation and its humor, violence and sexualization that many times are inappropriate for a target audience of youth and reflects a certain perversity within our culture.

it fell from the sky, 48"x48", mixed media, 2009

I have chosen a more abstract format for my work over representation, though such rigid categorizations make me uncomfortable. By utilizing an abstracted format that becomes ideogrammatic I seek to bypass categorization through language structures.