Artist Statement

I use sets of nonorganic geometric elements to illustrate theoretical spatial relationships between forms. The forms are often incomplete and the completion of the forms give potential movement and resolution that needs to be solved. The geometry itself is less important than the movement, relationships, and the group as a whole. I categorize my work as Geometric Spatial Abstraction. The reductive elements are built within a system that is meant to be understood within its own context.

When the viewer starts to engage with how the forms are arranged and how they could be reoriented, there is a shared perspective that opens a common abstract thought to be shared between us. It is not only this common viewpoint that I hope to accomplish, but a shared thought process in getting to that viewpoint. That is where I find communion with the viewer.

I advance ideas about spatial relationships that have universal appeal. I am interested in the pure abstract relationships between forms and how they work aesthetically. I want the audience to be drawn into the work and be able to recontextualize the relational objects to fit their own context.

I enjoy the abstract thought necessary to create the work and the possibility of communicating those abstract ideas.