Pattern & Architecture




Pattern & Architecture Statement




My practice is primarily painting with regular forays into object-based media. I work in series form, making bodies of work that address recurring themes of time, transience, and the interior. My paintings are typically precise and hard-edged, with an emphasis on pattern and architecture. I value pattern for its formal rhythms and for its cultural associations; it is for me a repository of hidden meanings and unspoken histories, a legacy of growing up in an Anglo English home in a culture with a long tradition of intensely decorative interiors. My imagery and materials often refer to our complex relationship to the home, which also serves as a platform from which to explore other ideas such as time, evanescence, the body, and gender politics. From a formal perspective I am interested in exploring the question of personal style and how it defines (or confines) an artist’s practice, in my work content generates form and consequently moves freely between abstraction and figuration.





Storyboard 02.23.62
2008
acrylic on canvas
42 x 108 inches
Home—Inside Looking Out
2008
acrylic on canvas
38 x 78 inches
Home—Outside Looking In
2008
acrylic on canvas
38 x 78 inches
Temporary Dwelling
2009
acrylic on canvas
36 x 60 inches
Long Ago, Far Away
2008
acrylic on canvas
39 x 52 inches
Kimono II
2004
acrylic on canvas
75 x 39 inches
Kimono
2004
acrylic on canvas
74 x 39 inches
Desirable Objects; Large Stack
2004
acrylic on birch panels
14 x 14 inches each, overall dimensions 91 x 45 inches
Odd Bedfellows
2004
acrylic on canvas
60 x 75 inches
Untitled III
2003
acrylic on canvas
75 x 60 inches
Untitled
2006
acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
Untitled II
2006
acrylic on canvas
38 x 52 inches
Regency
2005
acrylic on canvas
60 x 54 inches
Stay America
2004
acrylic on canvas
66 x 50 inches