About
I work with paper, acrylics, archival ink, and glue to make abstractions that are kaleidoscopic, harmonious, and pensive.
My style is hybridist, borrowing from op, minimalism, Russian constructivism, color field, and de Stijl, among others. Like the hard edged painters of the 1960s reacting to the Expressionists, I am concerned with regularity and symmetry. Geometrical and optical art is often concerned with issues of transcendental idealism, a reductive yellow brick road to a prosteriori, and I'm certainly working within this modernist tradition. But I'm also influenced by psychedelia, the high-color cut-outs and black-light posters of the hippie generation. What I'm seeking, I suppose, is entheogen without the excesses.
I love working with collage because its limitations are freeing. Rather than transmitting intention through brushstroke or laboriously building shape and form on canvas, meaning is conveyed through structure, by moving pieces around until the right note is struck. It's a fast, intuitive way to work. I use high-grade construction paper, but I also stain rag paper with acrylics and mineral oil to achieve a greater variety and intensity of colour and translucence.
Most compositions are made of repeated geometric shapes, and because there is something hypnotic about repetition, perhaps the images will invoke a sort of theta wave response in the viewer. There is no agenda, no lesson, no path to anywhere, only the world reimagined and reordered through compound eyes.