Sojourn Through Ambient Spaces – print pdf
My painting is an amalgamation of my education in architecture and a love of abstract expressionist & modern movements. I create narrative and symbolic work that often speaks to humankind’s overreach in the natural world. I draw inspiration from the concept of Psychogeography by the Situationists, and in my paintings often depict emotional cityscapes that blur the lines between place and mind.
Some of my past commissions include large-format oil and acrylic works with a similar visual arrangement, and include dreamscapes with their own native flora, fauna and geologies.
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Artist Statement
My work often involves anatomy, architecture, and nature, juxtaposed in unfamiliar landscapes, hinting at a vast shift in natural norms and a merging of self and place. I am obsessed with time’s effect on our own buildings, bodies, and nature, and thus my work often imagines the mark humankind leaves on the planet, both now and in the future.
I explore abstract expressionist object/field relationships hinting at urban vocabularies, both physically and psychologically. Inspired by the poetic works of the Situationists, John Hejduk & Lebbeus Woods, and the visual artwork of contemporary artists like Julie Mehetru, Marigold Santos, & Rajni Perera, I seek to create mythologies surrounding my work, accompanied by specific visual vocabularies.
Painting in oil and acrylic, my work is a culmination of intense layering, and masking. Mimicking the relentless architectural reconfiguring of our own cities, my layers of paint often hide/reveal conceptual underlayers while marrying strict geometric lines with more loose, gestural forms. In my most recent series, I employ new tools and mediums in order to paint more like I draw – without inhibition, and with more variance in line weights and scale.