My work's area of focus has always been abstraction, minimalism, and construction.This body of work merges minimalism, construction, and an ongoing interest in abstraction, with some of my deepest experiences of color as it relates to place. The work has been decisively influenced by my move to the Hudson Valley with its ever-changing light and color. The attempt to capture through color, the landscape light experience necessitates the translation of intricacies and subtleties of color, value, and intensity – the painter’s language. Color notations made in the landscape are often my starting point. But a delight in the play of value and color intensity manifests itself whether I am using the landscape notations, or “found” color in the form of paint chips and colored papers, which are also part of my working process.
Ultimately the work uses a non-objective language – abstraction to achieve a sparse sense of geometry and a lush, rich, and complex color sense. Though the term “constructions” probably best describes what I am doing, I consider the pieces more related to painting than sculpture because of the relationship to the wall plane and the frontal orientation characteristic of traditional painting.
My fascination with using salvaged wood pieces also began with my move upstate as I noticed the sense of weather and use in pieces of wood from buildings, which had formerly been painted. In contrast to the found wood, the color is a decisive reiteration and/or elaboration of the colors imbedded in those wooden pieces or taken from the other sources mentioned.