Biography
Art has the potential to force viewers into experiencing the theoretical; to push beyond the mundane into a word where reality is easily questioned. Through my art making practice I begin a process of internalizing and accepting issues of phenomenology. Questioning perception and exploring individual uncertainty in relation to identity, are consistently the starting points from which my work develops. I work figuratively in order to explore human interactions. If the figure is not drawn then I allude to it, as at the root of all experience is the individual. I am finding myself drawn to print installations for its ability to create an environment that envelops the viewer and disorients him/ her. By creating spaces in which the prints exist, the viewer can enter into an alternate reality and really perceive the issues I am exploring. The scale helps manipulate the viewer’s sense of space and carries with it a kind of strength.
I started doing reliefs of life size figures because I was drawn to the notion of my carving away at a substance meticulously revealing a loosely drawn individual. The idea stems from my exploring the idea that no one’s understanding of another individual can ever really be accurate. There are too many factors influencing each person’s conception of an individual for that perception to be even close to accurate. I like the play of opposites that occur when the printed image is what remained from my carving of a perceived individual.
