Series

Series: Foothold

Foothold gathers the paintings in which I found my footing in oil and cold wax. Coming to the medium after years in photography and printmaking, I didn't arrive at one register and stay there — the work moves between quiet and intuitive surfaces and more elemental, physical ones. That range wasn't indecision; it was the necessary work of a hand and an eye learning what this medium could do.

Series: The Cost of Making

The Cost of Making is painted on the substrates of my own consumption — recycled art supply cartons and other packaging that arrives every time I restock materials. The surface itself carries the evidence: printed logos, product names, the language of commerce bleeding through or interrupting the paint above it. These paintings ask what it costs, economically and environmentally to keep making. It examines the privilege of the practice of art.