My paintings explore the layered and disjunctive spaces of urban landscape. They integrate this physicality with a spare and decisive approach to abstract painting. The paintings suggest hybrid spaces, evoking both the external world of the street and an intimate sense of lived experience within the body.

The paintings are densely layered and decisively edited, resulting in compositions that feel solid and rooted, yet open and breathing. Configurations of light punctuate dark passages, and shapes group together and lock in, setting up a spatial structure which appears to shift as implied connections assert an alternate read. The light is that of late afternoon, dusk, or evening, sometimes within the same painting, resulting in a buzz of darkly luminous color.

This is an evocative, impure, and vernacular approach to abstraction. The work reflects a particular attitude about improvisation, in which the focus is on how distinctly different parts refer back to the underlying visual statement, allowing themes to emerge organically. The resulting work is informed by a direct painting process, with a pronounced sense of fluidity and interdependence.

The paintings are rooted in the familiar, but take on seemingly-contradictory and resonant spaces for thought. The potential for painting to touch experiential nerves in this way is not a given, nor any sort of special privilege, but it is possible, and it's what I'm working for.