I am a painter and installation artist, slipping between meaning and spatial structure. Beginning with silk, cotton, or velvet, I employ a system of application techniques (batik, salt, watercolor, stamping, rubbing, airbrush) along with a wide range of mark making (fabric dye, paint, pastel, marker, resist) in order to build, fold into and ultimately break down representational images that move between feeling and thought. Along the lines of historic document, diary, sign and post it note, this articulation of found photo, cartoon, and text is re-routed by a subjective understanding through loose interpretation, displacement, and hodge podge storytelling which easily falls into the realm of dream and unconscious. Humor, protest, critique, beauty; the defined and abstract bleed together in localized and layered expression.

The image becomes luxurious, translucent. Picture and ground fabric are transposed into one, caressing and stained, a seamless materiality pushed to the surface. Free from stretcher bars, the paintings drape, wrinkle, sag, float and billow in the breeze as curtain, wall hanging, sculpture, canopy, or tent. Suspended with fishing line and moving between spaces as interchangeable groupings, the once finished work of static meaning becomes one of many, a finality now in conversation with the other only to cut and re-edit itself as event.

As we enter, spatial perception becomes acute; air too becomes object, as it pushes in unison with these thin tarps to re-configure experiences of interiority once familiar. Scatological constellations of off-kilter paintings break the cube at every angle and touch, cradling and covering each other while a thin spider web of monofilament emanates to connect floor, ceiling and wall, attaching to hooks and pipes that would otherwise go unnoticed. Cocooned in a theatrical stage that is continually digging into itself, the work holds up and nullifies veil after veil in its desire to expose what lies underneath.