While I haven’t abandoned the easel and use paintbrushes, the surface is devoid of perceptible texture and traces of paint-handling, except for the slight ridges caused by the removed tape. Each work is on a cradled birchwood panel and should remain unframed. I use acrylic gouache (low-binder, non-reflective, absorbent color). Triangles, squares, rectangles, rhomboids, circles and trapeziums are arranged in autonomous, non-hierarchical patterns that structure the compositional field across the entire surface. My subject is color and line, and the energy that arises through the juxtapositions created by abrupt transitions between pattern areas. Patterns are used repeatedly across separate works, although not bound by color or scale. I think of each pattern as a block reminiscent of a batik tjap, or a syntactical unit such as a prepositional phrase or a subject and its predicate; thus the vocabulary of these works is comprised of fundamental, interchangeable, yet variable, units. I begin by making a one-inch grid over the surface, then tape of an area in the center, using 3x3 or 4x4 inches, and then work my way around and to the outside; making decisions about color and pattern in relation to the already-painted sections.
While I haven’t abandoned the easel and use paintbrushes, the surface is devoid of perceptible texture and traces of paint-handling, except for the slight ridges caused by the removed tape. Each work is on a cradled birchwood panel and should remain unframed. I use acrylic gouache (low-binder, non-reflective, absorbent color). Triangles, squares, rectangles, rhomboids, circles and trapeziums are arranged in autonomous, non-hierarchical patterns that structure the compositional field across the entire surface. My subject is color and line, and the energy that arises through the juxtapositions created by abrupt transitions between pattern areas. Patterns are used repeatedly across separate works, although not bound by color or scale. I think of each pattern as a block reminiscent of a batik tjap, or a syntactical unit such as a prepositional phrase or a subject and its predicate; thus the vocabulary of these works is comprised of fundamental, interchangeable, yet variable, units. I begin by making a one-inch grid over the surface, then tape of an area in the center, using 3x3 or 4x4 inches, and then work my way around and to the outside; making decisions about color and pattern in relation to the already-painted sections.