Artist Statement

As a child, I drew spaceships. In high school I began to envision whole cities and worlds from the future. I was especially fascinated by planets like Coruscant from Star Wars, a world entirely covered by city. I imagined myself careening through the skies in anti-gravity hover cars and exploring the infinite warrens and alley-ways.Today, my work continues to be inspired by science fiction, the future, technology, only in a more abstract way. I construct intricate, machine-like patterns, combining quick, loose gestures and tightly controlled marks.. The process I employ in my drawings and paintings is integral to them. I let them flow from my intuition, making decisions on the fly. In this way, they embody the apparent chaos of organic growth, expanding with no set plan. My work explores the line between mechanical and organic forms, between mechanism and organism. The intuitive process also involves a lack of conscious control. As an artist, I am very interested in releasing control and making art through processes outside of myself. This method can be either mechanical or natural. Process is important to both.

I work in all the traditional media – drawing, painting, sculpture, photography – as well as digital painting and 3D modeling/animation. I believe that an artist in this day and age needs to be fluent in a multitude of media in order to make the most of an idea. I also believe that digital technology and the internet hold tremendous possibilities for art making today.