My paintings build on the work of my predecessors; Lois Dodd, Marsden Hartley, Paul Cézanne, to cite a few. Shuttling between abstraction and representation, my canvases’ inclination toward pure gesture is refuted by their reference to the natural world, both archetypal and impressionistic. Through the rhythmic play and integration of fragmentary linear and planar elements, I work toward cultivating a contemporary and unique vernacular.

In my Tidbit Series, I utilize informal materials such as found cardboard and product packaging. With minimal elements of composition, process, surface, and color, I transform the banal original materials into a complex intersection of plane and form. Often, these pieces are used as maquettes for considerably larger works. This work is, in every way, a graphic distillation of my longstanding painting practice.

Elements of artificiality are interlaced in cloudlike boulders, palmtree grass, cheetah-print rocks, and rainbow-land formations. Utilizing a roller, stencils, and various printmaking techniques, I create isolated landscapes whose repeating and clichéd symbols of tropics and girlhood fantasies compose an abstract narrative of personal identity.

When all else fails, find the Sun.
A small act that keeps the wheels turning.

“Experience in the degree in which it is experience is heightened vitality. Instead of signifying being shut up within one’s private feelings and sensations, it signifies active and alert commerce with the world; at its height it signifies complete interpenetration of the self and the world of objects and events. Instead of signifying surrender to caprice and disorder, it affords our sole demonstration of a stability that is not stagnation but is rhythmic and developing. Because experience is the fulfillment of an organism in its struggles and achievements in a world of