Within my artistic practice, I maintain an interest in exploring the space between the two- dimensional and three- dimensional, hybridizing painting, printmaking and sculpture. I use painting as a matrix to work against and to stretch into the realms of other mediums. I look to painting to inspire color and form, and extract the formal qualities to reinvent the boundaries of painting.

I am engaged in the physical and material processes of constructing pieces and my work is driven by contrasts in materiality, form and scale. My current mode of making involves a reliance on collage and the accumulation of layers, utilizing accessible materials, such as paper, fabric and wood. Through simple materials, I build pieces that transcend their materiality and take on new meanings. By layering and collaging two- dimensional materials, I build dimensionality and form, while referencing compositional techniques of painting and printmaking. The resulting pieces suggest abstracted, fantastical landscapes that explore the tenuous and turbulent behavior of nature. I am drawn to the uncontrollability of nature, and I am interested in creating amorphous works that parallel the construction and deconstruction found in naturally occurring phenomena.

My recent fabric collages utilize remnants from other projects and incrementally grow into new patchworked forms. The collages are glued, sewn, and fused together to make disparate parts into a Technicolor whole. Color is a crucial component to my work, looking to fabric as one might look to tubes of paint, layering acrid colored materials together in close proximity, to assemble pieces that draw the eye into moments of concentrated, intensified color.