Artist Statement
 

In some of these pieces I used several layers of paint, tape, and gesso to create geometric patterns. There is a certain amount of control I have in terms of the overall tone and color of each layer, but I can’t ever be truly sure about what the small portion of each layer that ends up being visible will look like. As intentional as I can be regarding the way these layers may relate to one another, I can never truly know what the final piece will look like.
In other pieces in this series I use paint diluted with water dripped onto unprimed paper to highlight the forms that these drops create. There is an incredible thing that happens when you are dripping paint from a brush. Depending on how the brush was dunked there could be more or fewer drops that come out, but at a certain point the perfect drop comes. After most of the water has drained the final remnants become saturated with paint. As intentional as this process is there is a certain spontaneity that comes with it. Holding the brush several feet above the painting, I have a limited amount of control over the place that this drop eventually lands.
This work contains a very direct focus on the idea of intention. It is calculating, precise, and controlled. It is also chaotic, random, and loose. In each of the pieces the process of creation is highly regulated and particular. No matter how intentional these processes are there is a point where the medium takes back a stake in the process. My work is an attempt to discern this breakdown of control and intention, and to highlight it.