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My current work is fabricated from paint peeled from paintings that I made previously. Initially, my idea was to cut and remove small sections of paint from thickly painted, monochromatic compositions creating "scars" in the paintings. I became interested in the removed pieces themselves and I became very involved with ways of reassembling these fragments to create new wholes. The new works reconstructed from these pieces carry with them a history of the works that preceded them, brushstrokes once intended to create a different image, pigments and marks buried beneath the latter layers of paint applications which continued to evolve and stratify unseen. Often, it is the hidden, older layers which are on view in the new works. I welcome the interplay between the choices and structure I exert in making these new images and forms, and the random and arbitrary qualitys of color, texture and shape of the pieces which is an accident of the process. In this body of work, paint has become less a medium and more a found material. In many ways these new works share ideas that have long driven my involvement in painting; I am interested in paint as a physical material as well as a medium of representation. I am also intrigued with the adaptive aspects of paint; it’s capacity to create illusion or simply cover a surface. Education Selected Exhibitions: |
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