ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Paintings

            I remember as an art student looking at a Tiepolo painting and noticing imprints of brush strokes beneath the surface that were not part of the final composition. These strokes represented something Tiepolo had painted over; a rejection of one passage or idea for another, a change of mind. By observing the history and dimensionality of marks left in the wake of the evolution of the painting I felt that I was there, watching Tiepolo at work.
             My recent abstract paintings are a kind of alchemy of controlled accidents, random play and unexpected relationships that acquire greater significance as the making and layering of the painting evolves. My work, in part, reflects a meditation on surface and relies increasingly on working with a multiplicity of mediums, including oil paints, shellac, metal patinas, incandescent powders and photographic emulsions & chemicals. As layers are built up, the earliest areas resonate from beneath and in some way tease the surface of the finished work. In this sense, surface becomes an archeological record and a topography, a memoir of the making of the painting and competes in importance with the image, expanding perception.
          Through small points of pigment applied in layers over disorderly surfaces, these paintings map ambiguous relationships of clusters and patterns - semaphores from of a hermetic world without objects or comfortable references.

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Carol Robinson Gallery
http://www.carolrobinsongallery.com/
Rice Polak Gallery
http://www.ricepolakgallery.com/
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/prc/
Pinhole Visions
http://www.pinhole.com/
PinholeResource.
http://www.pinholeresource.com/shop/home
Omniscope Anamorph Pinhole Camera
http://www.abelsonscopeworks.com/cameras/omniscope.htm
‘Made in Poland’ an Exhibition of Seven Polish Pinhole Photographers
www.bostonpolishpinholephotography.com

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