Anywhere/Everywhere But Here
This series is constructed of cut up paintings, mostly ink and acrylic and gouache on Yupo, that come together in colorful, textural, compositions that invoke imaginary places that exist in the liminal space between the abstract and the representational. In all of my work I’m interested in the moment when a composition ceases to be about materials, color, or form and becomes something we can name or make associations with. I think of this work as world building and I have been doing it since childhood. Through fantasy I have always had an escape. I collected things and still do. For this body of work I collected scraps and remnants of my own work. I made decisions about what would stay whole and what would be cut and then played with infinite possibilities as I started putting the scraps together. What began small on paper grew on panels and then exceeded boundaries as wall installations. With each change in scale comes a different perspective on the sometimes tiny pieces used to make the work. Familiar elements bordering on the recognizable or representational are placed next to abstract brushstrokes with the illusion of texture. Sometimes landscape, sometimes object, sometimes macro, sometimes micro, always an access point to someplace else. I am always seeking to create something just familiar enough to draw someone in, and unfamiliar enough for them to form questions about what they are seeing. To collect the available work from this series, head here: Art Interiors
These pieces are all yupo on panel. Some have slight relief between collage layers.