SHAPED WORKS: Outer shapes of these works, shift, expand, suppress, split, restrict, or elongate the images contained within them. Often times, images of natural settings are thus, severely distorted by the seemingly imposed and/or imposing artificial geometries. The tension between the two, what may be perceived as the visible order of the natural world, and the invisible order of human systems (cultures, histories, politics, etc.), is the force energizing these works. A “contemporary romanticism”, aware of our mental landscapes as well as those of the natural environment, may not be an inaccurate short hand to describe the underlying sensibility.
M.F.A. Painting, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York (1984)
M.A. Painting, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York (1983)
