"Two States" Painting

Since I first started producing abstract paintings, I've been interested in making pieces that have a strong sense of dynamism. It's the exact opposite impulse from that which motivated Frank Stella's self-referential "pinstripe" paintings, which I ironically consider a source of inspiration. My earliest, rectangular abstractions (strongly echoing Kandinsky) slowly evolved to my current body of paintings which occupy both sculptural and pictorial space.

In my current work, I use line to convey directionality, tension, and to establish a sense of internal scale. I use color to imply variations in depth, activity, and stillness. These elements of pictorial suggestion interact with the concrete elements of the sculptural support, which I design to reflect its own set of internal tensions -- polygons of various sizes and depths sliding against each other, embracing, wedging between one another, and so on. The physical properties of the sculptural support lend a sense of gravity and direction to each piece, while pictorial elements permit one's imagination to explore implied depths, spaces, and movements within the sculptural.