VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
My artistic process is to paint from life. It’s a celebration of the slow gaze, work that comes from a deep sense of gratitude and a longing to practice mindfulness. The still life setups are composed of daily life—finding beauty, life, energy and delight in ordinary moments and objects. My work connects with the tradition of Vanitas by including ephemeral flowers, fish and vegetation. I combine acrylic paint and paper on canvas to create a surface that invites a close look, using wrapping paper and vintage ephemera such as map fragments, ledger paper, hymns, poetry and Little Golden Book Encyclopedia pages for children. This is a way to include other voices and viewpoints within the image, a sense of nostalgia and the possibility for making a myriad of connections. Intense color, light, pattern and texture are a focus that drive me on this creative journey. Grappling with these ingredients feels like a very serious form of play. Hopefully, that joy and engagement show up in the work and are contagious. The polka dot grids refer to faith in atoms, spirit, pixels and all of the things that are hard to see that pervade the physical world.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:36 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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United States
I want my paintings to emerge from an open ended visual conversation that comes from paying attention to what I see. We learn from quantum physics that the act of observing something changes it. It seems that just by observing, I am changed also. Combining paint, high key color, overlay drawing and collage elements create a place of intense visual experience. These layers are a way to work out the paradoxes that I find to be a part of each day. It’s an exploration of the possibility of transcendence in the midst of ordinary life. My subject matter has a past life –used, inherited, and inhabited. Glass has it’s own metaphor of how we perceive. It sometimes creates a distortion and sometimes acts as a clarifying lens. Flowers and weeds are included for their allusion to fragility and for their association with arbitrary categories. What I might call a weed, you might call a flower. Collage materials create a tension between public and private. For example, the shared nostalgia from old storybook encyclopedias are entangled with the thick paint of ecstatic moments in the studio. Still life and landscape painting are ways I can express ideas about emotions that aren’t so easily put in words. Yet words are always floating around...in this case they show up in fragments of dislodged text. We all have a daily experience of domestic life. The dilemma is becoming blind to the familiar. Ultimately, I find, that these small moments are a great place for discovery, for awakening.
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