My mixed media works are built around a shared compositional structure in which each piece is split evenly into two vertically hinged fields. The upper half tends toward the metaphysical, a numinous inward-looking space, while the lower half turns to the immediacy of my physical world crumbling before us. My work is the paradox of organizing the surfaces, barriers, and changing landscape of the physical world into precise compositions that evoke an inward, metaphysical space. Though fundamentally flat, the paintings suggest movement both across and beyond the picture plane.

Locality has informed my practice throughout my career. The industrial yet rapidly developing Brooklyn landscape awash in graffiti and murals informs color, surfaces and visual language. Construction fencing occupies a predominant portion of the urban landscape and viewing light and color through it has become an obsession – porous barriers are a theme throughout my work.

Process is important to my practice. Precise hard-edged forms are “drawn” with tape. Loose, intuitive sessions with acrylic spray-paint create soft assimilations. Some works include collaged digital prints. All of these elements are layered one upon another, often on top of an archival pigment print on canvas, to create a sense of depth.

I also construct site-specific installations using the materials that are by-products of my practice. As opposed to my two-dimensional work that simply implies space and texture, here I employ matter to analyze space while staying committed to the “above and below” format.