curatorial statement:

Through the delicate arrangement of seemingly disparate objects a cohesive exhibition narrative begins to form. I am interested in bringing together well executed artworks with aesthetic and contemporary value.

artist statement:

Residing in Chicago for the last ten years, I have become fascinated by the gridded metropolis and how physical structure influences culture. Chicago's landscape is layered with industrial history. The architecture tells the history of a city while dictating the present realities of urban life. The city is a place of vastly diverse humanity. There is serendipitous possibility and yet there is also a sense of anonymity in numbers.

I began to explore my interest in the urban experience through a series of collaged cityscapes consisting of found materials, gouache, photographs, charcoal, natural pigments, and fiber on paper. More recently I have been working on canvas. I am articulating an abstract visual language to render the city landscape. I layer collected materials using color as a unifying base. The compositions become richly textured and create a complex surface. Through the use of materials, the arrangements build into a narrative about the society within the city’s physical structure.

From my mixed media collage works emerged a series of small constructions investigating the basic materials of my art as they relate to common fundamental elements of the fabricated world. I have titled these works Pieces of Structure, because each small work functions as a microscopic view point into elements of the assembled city. These works are intimate components of a larger arrangement. I utilize compositional materials from constructed environments such as plaster, fiber, wood, found objects and paint to create small topographies of physical moments within the city grid.