Artist's Statements
work dated 2008
They are abstract black & white works on paper, inspired by fragmentary dark structures outlined against a dull white sky.
I construct my work with hard-edged forms and lines, with cut paper and black printing ink, with the whites of paper and tape, with the ragged black of a drypoint line and the grey of the paper from the plate tone. I cut the paper and mend it, sometimes darkening the cut with ink. I glue stiff strips of cardboard, blackened with ink, to the paper. I peel back the grey surface of the paper, revealing white beneath the light grey film of ink. I extend irregular shapes and angular lines beyond the edge of the paper, and 3-dimensionally off of the surface.
Instead of drawing a picture of an imagined lonely structure in a barren nature, I am building that structure with heavy paper and printing ink.
work dated 2007
The prints are the structures.
They are no longer depictions of structures, they have become the structure.
Originally the prints were records of what others had built — now, they are the structures that I build.
work dated 2005 - 2006
The prints are Abstractions of imagined structures, objects, cities or landscapes, conveying resonance or connection. They exist bleak & lonely, yet heroic.
The figure is not present, though most prints reference man-made structures — those which the figure built before he gave up & left. The disintegrating remains of a dream that was felt strongly, acted upon, & then failed.
I blend influences of Futurism & Constructivism — art that was made with great passion when anything was possible — with an eye that sees how the built-work of brilliant dreams physically fades & ages, & still remains as inspiring.
work dated 2002 - 2004
Abstractions of a mental state.
The logic of factory-grey & desolation — a girl & her printing press, isolation.
The mechanized clicking of thinking — these are objects & landscapes that exist, but no one has seen them.
My logic — logic in general — crumbles & twists, formulates itself in black etching ink.
My etchings are the outcome of my perception of existence — bleak & strange.