Oil Drawings
These works translate the movement, energy and reach capabilities of my body into phenomenological drawing. Interwoven and fragmented spaces can be occupied both physically and perceptually. When viewed in parts portals appear to penetrate the surface. As a unified form they cannot hold a single spatial logic. These drawings resist notions inherent to the classical unified gaze, where as the viewer can 'take in' the rational of the entire image. The stuttering gaze, or the experience of form that cannot be held in mind of the viewer interests me more.
Wonder Woman. Pastel on Yupo. 77"x60". 2012
Warrior Formations. Pastel on Yupo. 82"x52". 2014
Everything is Entrance. Pastel on Yupo. 48"x56". 2014
Stinger (left) and Invasive Devotional (right). Pastel on yupo. 28"x 36". 2012
Scottish Thistle (Nesting Season). Pastel on Yupo. 40"x32". 2013.
Rapid Expansion. Pastel on Yupo. 60"x70". 2012
detail of Rapid Expansion
Transience. Pastel on Yupo. 40"x29" 2012
Bewilderment (Euphoria) 29"x40" pastel on yupo. 2012
Performative drawing: action and breath
Through movement and drawing my "analog" body becomes an instrument of mapping. This methodology inquires how we might re-experience our social architecture as the accumulated traces of our activities within it. Through drawing I contemplate on the impact of seemingly insignificant gestures, generating highly conspicuous formations -- a means for charting the expansive mental spaces that exist between the banal activities of everyday living.
Through movement and drawing my "analog" body becomes an instrument of mapping. This methodology inquires how we might re-experience our social architecture as the accumulated traces of our activities within it. Through drawing I contemplate on the impact of seemingly insignificant gestures, generating highly conspicuous formations -- a means for charting the expansive mental spaces that exist between the banal activities of everyday living.
Detail of Drawing Performance: 'Sitting and crossing legs'.
Detail of Performative Drawing: 'Crossing Legs'.
Performative Drawing: 'Hair Flip'. Ucross Foundation. Wyoming. 2013
Performative Drawing: 'Brushing teeth' at the After Hours Alliance Festival. Santa Fe, NM 2012
Performative Drawing: 'Putting on Socks' at the After Hours Alliance Festival. Santa Fe, NM 2012
Performative Drawing: 'Bow' at the After Hours Alliance Festival. Santa Fe, NM 2012
Burnished and atmospheric drawings
These works make use of the shifting nature of perception, to disrupt the immediate subject of the work, and to offset compositional balance and the appearance of hierarchal or singular relationships established through scale and value structure. Shaped after a combination of interactive spaces including Ouija boards, English Gardens, and chessboards, alien forms such as hand grenades and pistols are integrated harmoniously into decorative and lush grounds. Envoking plant consciousness, and heightened states of neuro-botanical bliss, these works are inspired by folk medicine, field guides and plant symbology in mythological paintings.
Starflung. Graphite on double sided translucent Mylar. 2015
Happy Calamity. Graphite on double sided translucent Mylar. 22"x22". 2010.
Bitchy Hair
Graphite on two-sided, translucent mylar, 2011
detail of Bitchy hair
Hive Hex. Graphite drawing on two-sided, translucent Mylar. 21"x21" 2012
Two views of Hive Hex. The burnished graphite surface is reflective.
Via Florum. 21"x21" Graphite on Mylar, 2010
Detail of reflective surface in Via Florum.
Detail of reflective surface in Via Florum.
