Concord Art MJ 1: Painting and Sculpture
The opening for Concord Art’s MJ1: Painting and Sculpture Exhibition is tonight. The show will run through February 11th 2024. Jazzed to have my painting In The Garden selected to be in the show!
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint abstracts because I find them beguiling. I will use the word liminal to describe the space in which I work because it is an unformed in-between place, a space that contains possibility. There is a flow.
Working with curiosity and embodied knowledge, my painting is a conversation with the canvas. I work quickly, but the process can take months. And like a conversation with a friend, the conversation gets deeper and richer as it develops.
The viewer also has a conversation with the painting. Connection happens, or it doesn’t, but the ultimate joy of painting is when a viewer finds resonance with your work.
I believe paintings are totems of conversation. Good paintings are beautiful because they can connect us—wordlessly.
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is to try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.”
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek