PORTFOLIO > Current Work (2018-Present)

Strata
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
48” x 36”
2023
Catch My Breath
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
48” x 36”
2023
Mariner
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
48” x 36”
2023
Threshold
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
48” x 36”
2023
Mother Tongue
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
36" x 24"
2023
Van Brunt III
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
30" x 60"
2023
Byrne III
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
60" x 30"
2021
Surveyor
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
36” x 24”
2022
Surveyor - Detail
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
36” x 24”
2022
Byrne II
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
60" x 40"
2021
Doldrum I
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
48" x 24"
2021
Doldrum III
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
24" x 18"
2021
Doldrum IV
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
24" x 18"
2021
Doldrum VI
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
24" x 18"
2021
Doldrum V
Painted Paper, thread, nails and wood on wood panel
73” x 36”
2021
Byrne I
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
24" x 48"
2020
Byrne - Detail
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
24" x 48"
2020
Stoop
Painted paper, thread and nails on wood
24" x 18"
2019
Stoop Detail
Painted paper, thread, wood and nails on wood panel
24" x 18"
2020
Blönduós IV
Painted paper, thread and nails on wood
24" x 18"
2019

My work focuses on relationships, most often my relationship with and to the world that I inhabit. Material and process are vital to this practice, and although the work has the appearance of abstraction, it finds its genesis in reality. I typically start with found source material from specific locations that imbue a sense of history and time; cracks on a sidewalk, layers of paint on a fence, etc. I then translate and transform these findings into dimensional, paper collages that grow organically.

A love of color and composition comes from my painting background, but I mine the traditions, techniques and language of textiles to create physicality, depth and meaning. Borrowing from the lexicon of weaving, clusters of painted paper are layered and suspended in space by the tension of threads. These dimensional collages are modular with small forms gathering together like stones accumulating into a mountain. Like with quilting and embroidery, fractions of shape and color are stitched and pieced together to build up the picture plane into a cohesive whole. It is an intimate conversation with my materials to create a sense of harmony and order from fragments.