Artist Statement

Carl Andre famously proclaimed that sculpture was essentially form, structure and place. To him, art is physical presence. I see painting as a culmination of energy, experience and existence — a kinetic exchange. Both vantages view art as an expression of tangible forces; any encounters with it are experiential rather than intellectual with emotions born outside of memory. In this light, art transforms into a quantum epoxy that bonds the individual sense of reality with the universal reality, an existential union of everything all at once. It is an intimate journey into the Other, a place where light, space and meaning coalesce. And for me, to invoke this level of engagement by employing materials as simple as brush, paint and canvas is fascinating — the utilization of a flat, static medium to encourage a moving, multi-dimensional experience where beauty and existence are unbounded by thought or time.

“I am not interested in ideas as the burden of art… the important thing about art is how it stimulates us.” — Carl Andre

In short, this is my aim: to negate mankind’s unreality using painting, at its highest form of chromatic purity and precision, as a channel for extending the dialogue between emotive expression and mathematical order, merging passion with perception, unifying man with the world around him. In an increasingly clamorous and technological society, it serves as a silent yet revolutionary act — an invitation to enter the ever-transient domain of the unexpected without judgement or justification and to stay within it, at least a while. Inside this liminal space between the viewer and the art where the known and the unknown meet, a spiritual consummation can take place, a kind of wonder whose meaning cannot and probably should not be explained. Here, we are free. Because this is what art can do; fill the mind with ideas or, in this case, empty it of them so that we can welcome a new and perhaps more inspired reality.

Artist Background