paintings

approached from a sign painter’s perspective, but executed with a glassworker’s precision…

the paintings i create are small, precise, saturated, and glossy.

while i have embraced traditional sign painting materials in my practice, specifically one shot enamel paint and aluminum panels, i do not work on the scale of billboards or walls; to the contrary, i paint small, like postcard small.

because of their diminutive and intimate size, i have leaned on my training as a glassworker in service of tool making, fabricating glass brushes with tips sometimes as thin as a needle, affording me a level of control unavailable with ordinary brushes.

from single panel to multi panel

composed on a single panel, earlier paintings document a specific trajectory (and corresponding event).
while these pathways unfold within painting, they both enter and exit the frame, continuing beyond in each direction.

in this way they are snapshots of an action, a single frame isolated from a larger context, their preceeding and ensuing details unseen.
just as some of my sculptures utilize the planes of architecture as barriers (walls, ceilings, floors) , in painting too, i have come to see the edge of the panels as similar boundaries on the composition, limiting what is known and unknown.

it was a logical progression to begin aggregating single panels into groupings, stitching together the these “instances” into ever larger and growing compositions.