My practice combines minimal pencil drawings of simplified,
whimsical forms with large-scale canvases and idiosyncratic
neon sculpture. I start by bending and shaping the neon tubes that
will later inform the graphite images. The paintings, then, play
with an understanding of “light” in representational painting by
the literal presence of a light-emitting element. The “light” in the
paintings operates, at once, as representational form (tree, cloud,
goldfish, flower), line, color, light source, and as a commentary
on the relationship among all four. In the Duchampian tradition, I