The Curve

Description

Artist Statement:
This collection or artwork consists of hand painted paper collages, hand painted
wood collages, fused glass with frits of fine glass. and an acrylic on paper
painting.

My work has a nostalgic connection to mid-century abstraction, black and white
cinema, photography, and television. Compositional elements employ the
natural and built environment including geometric and architectural elements,
and stage like settings using dramatic dark and light. Borders and edges
become a barrier or a proscenium. Open space becomes a stage where the
unexpected can occur, like spatial play, or improvisation.

The work develops first with a dialogue or conversation between unplanned and
intentional mark making, giving way to the conscious and accidental. Within a
tightly constructed space, an uncertain line, a softened flat shape, an off key
color, create a delicate drama. The risk one takes becomes an adventure
waiting for the outcome to reveal itself.

Constructed, floating shapes and colors intersecting within a space give way to
defying gravity and a connection to a personal relationship. My work holds an
intimate quality, a fragility and vulnerability that communicate through congruent
and disparate relationships.

I work in multi-media monotype, collage, paintings in encaustic and acrylic, and
fused glass, with references drawn from photography, film, and architecture.