I am unusually sensitive to monochromatic planes of color as they occur throughout my daily experience. These instances inform my painting practice, which essentially addresses color relationships and the ways in which we experience color in real life. How and why do certain color combinations elicit specific emotional reactions? On both personal and cultural levels, we recognize and celebrate certain color scenarios while disdaining others. Painting enables me to examine this peculiar territory. My finished pieces consist of carefully arranged units of color that provoke and articulate my own sensibilities. At their best, these works create a resonance that feels at once balanced and precarious.

My interest in art history strongly influences my practice, and I am particularly focused in studying geometric abstract paintings. Though I remain deeply reverent of the artists who developed abstraction and later minimalism, I aspire to make work that is less easily categorized than one might assume at first glance. Above all else I am a painter, and I am concerned with the same issues - light, composition, and color - that entice all painters. I use geometry to orchestrate a gratifying visual exchange; seemingly prosaic or mundane compositions reveal themselves with sustained and peripheral viewing. I am an optimist and a romantic, and it is my hope that these objects will endure for hundreds of years, ultimately reflecting a poetic and considered meditation on the act and experience of painting in the early 21st century.