Detailed description painting process and concepts

Process:

The process I use to build these canvases uses collaged fabrics, epoxy and thin plywood. I employ a high level of craft resulting in technically sophisticated, lightweight and durable canvases. While creating my them I use the sculptor’s reductive techniqueto shape and remove material to create a balance between solid painted area and the ‘holes’. My;improvisational jazz painting process builds a visual metaphor for my life through shape, rhythm,texture and content.

Color:

I have been drawn to brilliant color since childhood. I still remember seeing Frank Stella’s work at the Guggenheim Museum when I was three years old.  Combine color and movement to establish rhythms and you have Visual Jazz.

Texture:

The foundation for building space and gesture in my paintings relies on texture. Beneath the emphatic layering of paint are layers of fabric, string, and other materials and this texture creates the structural underpinning for relationships such a space and movement.

Holes are cut strategically from the canvases to create empty shapes and they create a counterpoint to the painted shapes. They affect rhythm and pace. The cutouts create wall shadows and become passageways and areas to pause.

Jigsaw Puzzle Shapes

The jigsaw puzzle shapes challenge linear thinking and these shapes point to the interconnectedness of all things and to the unexpected forms those connections inhabit.

The jigsaw edges cast shadows that move across the wall as the light of day changes and the cutouts add shadowy pools that offer visual relief to the brilliant hues and movement.

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