Artist Statement:
These Paintings are referential to specific “Psychological States of Being” related to; particular times of day, pending weather conditions, and months or seasons of the year. They produce a naturalistic sense of color and light through ongoing physical iteration, by scraping, power sanding, literal movement of pigment from one location on the canvas to another, and the juxtaposed luminosity of in-house mulled paint – either suspended in linseed oil or alkyd resin. These works are life size, each canvases’ physical boundaries are large enough for a person to enter, the mark making gestures are products of the artist’s natural body movement and arm extension – which can touch all areas of the painting with a single lateral step. The creation of form by overlaying different viscosities’ of paint, and then scraping away and sanding down through layers of pigment is unmitigated – with large intervals of a developing composition scraped or sanded down to the surface of the canvas as often as paint is applied with a brush or spread with a spackle knife. Each painting defines its own terms of pictorial logic, fresh canvases begin at the point the last resolved work defined itself, and in turn proceeds through major changes as paint is removed, repositioned or re-mulled with additional ground pigment directly on the canvas. Finished paintings rarely develop sequentially, their final state asserts itself as large areas of the compositions are wiped away, revealing new inter-connections among gestural marks, and the transformation of color within the implied field by newly formed contextual contrasts. These works may be experienced in isolation or placed in inter-active proximity to affect the state of large interior spaces.