Artist Statement

My  work is a celebration of the body, difference, and materiality.  Many of my ceramic sculptures involve clay forms reminiscent of body parts like intestines, spines, or hearts. They often allude to positions that reference physical postures such as leaning or twisting. 

The idea of my work as an artifact of my body’s movements also interests me. Clay is the perfect medium for exploring this because of how it captures touch on its surface. My paintings are made by layering, transfering, and conjoining acrylic paint skins made large painted gestures brushed on plastic. It’s a full body activity, pressing painting surfaces together and tilting canvases on the floor to move watery pours of acrylic. The surfaces are constantly reworked up until the moment a teetering form of balance is achieved between surface and object. As a whole, the work becomes a record of my own gestures and movements.  

The ideas of change and impermanence are also important to me.  In both the ceramics and the paintings, I often think of my pieces as growing and changing over time.  There is always a balance between planning and improvising when I’m making my work.  The process of finding that balance and discovering moments for change is what drives the work.