Artist Statement

Although for the most part abstract, the titles, the dominance of the color red, process, and form indicate the emotional and personal dimensions of the work here presented. Improvised markings follow one after the other, each moving lurching towards a final unity and coherence that is suggested by the final work but never really realized. This rejection of completeness and perfection, the refusal to make pieces whose surfaces bare no trace of their making, is further indicated by retention of the the small drips and other 'imperfections' that act as a permanent residue of the process of construction on the final surface of the work.With hard edged lines, which is in the Coagulation series merely indicated by the gap between the several pieces of paper out of which the piece, are constructed the more amorphous sponged surfaces the enacts a tension between open-endedness and containment, between color and composition, and between expression and pure form.

If the abstract paintings use hints of personal content to add a counterpoint to work that may seem to be very formal, my collages, created on a rough irregular surfaces and often explicitly dealing with personal situations, places the emotionally charged material against a rather formal handling of its elements, with text, for example, that is often placed on long rectangular pieces of paper that recall the hard-edged lines of the paintings. Shifting in the direction of expressionism, the work keeps the expression contained in implicit form.