Statement:
Growing up in Los Angeles, modern buildings fascinated me long before I had any idea about architecture. I lived near Gregory Ain’s Dunsmuir Apartments and Schindler’s Buck House. Their stucco rectangles and slabs of glass, punctuated with lines of wood or metal, amazed me. I recalled these visual memories when I discovered the paintings of Mondrian and McLaughlin and I made a connection.
Recently, I have been trying to expand the boundaries of my minimal work. I am deconstructing simple blocks of color, breaking rectangles into shapes to develop more complex compositions. The emerging forms overlap and ask questions about depth and space.
Color in my work establishes perspective, pushing, pulling, creating atmosphere. It comes from the different light of both coasts. Browns, blacks, grays from New York, shielded by buildings and subways. From California, come the greens, yellows, oranges reflected by the expansive sun.
The work is looking for that space between hand made and mechanical. Images should be well defined, yet maintain a sense of warmth. You see this quality in early modern buildings. As designed, they were far ahead of their time, yet construction methods were not always up to the challenge. They look pure, machine made from a distance, but with closer inspection, you sense the hand.
Art is a continuous exercise, synthesizing your life experiences. As an artist, I feel privileged to find an audience that is interested in what I have to share.
Growing up in Los Angeles, modern buildings fascinated me long before I had any idea about architecture. I lived near Gregory Ain’s Dunsmuir Apartments and Schindler’s Buck House. Their stucco rectangles and slabs of glass, punctuated with lines of wood or metal, amazed me. I recalled these visual memories when I discovered the paintings of Mondrian and McLaughlin and I made a connection.
Recently, I have been trying to expand the boundaries of my minimal work. I am deconstructing simple blocks of color, breaking rectangles into shapes to develop more complex compositions. The emerging forms overlap and ask questions about depth and space.
Color in my work establishes perspective, pushing, pulling, creating atmosphere. It comes from the different light of both coasts. Browns, blacks, grays from New York, shielded by buildings and subways. From California, come the greens, yellows, oranges reflected by the expansive sun.
The work is looking for that space between hand made and mechanical. Images should be well defined, yet maintain a sense of warmth. You see this quality in early modern buildings. As designed, they were far ahead of their time, yet construction methods were not always up to the challenge. They look pure, machine made from a distance, but with closer inspection, you sense the hand.
Art is a continuous exercise, synthesizing your life experiences. As an artist, I feel privileged to find an audience that is interested in what I have to share.