Artist Statement
“From the very start of my journey with painting, color has been the most exciting part for me. Growing up, there were events in my life I had trouble processing and moving past. I turned to art and developed a natural relationship with color that helped me cope and compartmentalize. When I paint, I am painting with my life and using color as my language. While the swirling colors and patterns are fun to look at, I have learned to love the unpredictability of life because of color. My motivation behind sharing these personal life moments is to allow the viewer an opportunity to see the bright side of personal growth and development.”
About the Collection: Psychic Automatism
In this collection, color is a tool used by the subconscious mind to demonstrate the journey of discovery in self reflection. The artist welcomes their impulsive side to the canvas. This creates a less intimidating approach to beginning a new piece and allows new formations to build from. In this approach, the artist can freely express emotion through a journey that concludes with a new perspective. The style is an intuitive processes of creating and is not pre-planned. By excluding external demands, the artist is free to create in the moment and connect with the raw embodiment of being human at that moment in time. The artist challenges the viewer to connect to their human tendencies and notice the impulses they live with or suppress. This sense of honestly connects people to one another. A world overly saturated with information and intentional meaning is distracted and divided. This series is the artist’s raw contribution to society, where outside judgment doesn’t matter and living in the same moment of time connects us all.
About the Collection: Synesthesia
This collection explores the influence of music on the subconscious mind. The artist selects a song and listens to it on loop while painting a landscape of the forms of color that emerge. The frequency, pitch, volume, intensity, all influence the color behavior in the painting; similar to how it provokes feelings and emotions. The unique style is central to the artist’s way of interpreting sound. Synesthesia is a neurological function of the brain that fuses two senses together. It’s believed that every person has a deep rooted connection to music which automatically initiates a feeling or perspective that transcends language. The artist practices layering the color forms in a landscape setting to depict a visual existence of the song providing it a new presence in a materialistic world. The artist challenges the viewer to notice the special abilities of the subconscious mind and use those abilities to more authentically translate the word around them.
About the Collection: Synchromism
Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. A composer of music in a symphony is compared to an artist who constructs color to create a painting. In this series of paintings, The artist takes the role of a conductor who produces an experience rather than an interpreter of an experience; action verses reaction. The canvas becomes a place for the artist to construct a perspective, rather than using the canvas to process a personal life events. In doing so, the artist can challenge the viewer to ponder on their own perspectives of life surround the subject matter.