ROCKET TORTE
HIDDEN CAKE
Artist Statement
I intend Sugar Sugar as a play between language and formal elements. I dismantle discarded toys, random home décor, and kitchen tools, putting pieces together to make a sweet dessert or cake. I color the structure, using paint like icing to unify and empower the new form.
SCAPES
UNTITLED
UNTITLED
Artist Statement
In these drawings I use decorative wallpaper pattern as a cue for the nostalgia of childhood and time passed — a floor plan, cross section, or elevation view of a house, stage, orchard, or garden. “House” is an anonymous object, a symbol of the ideal or simplified American “home”.
plumbing
PLUMBING
SINK
Artist Statement
In my dreams I fly through fixtures and networks of house plumbing. The view is a longitudinal section -- a floor plan, cross section and elevation of the plumbing system. I encounter sexual desire and digestive function: the reproductive and digestive systems of body plumbing.
wall
Basin
Ceiling Fan
Double Switch
Artist Statement
The paintings in this series represent individual walls. Decorative wallpaper pattern is a cue for the nostalgia of time passed, of home, of childhood. There are moments of clarity and obfuscation—of almost being able to see through a screen into deep space. We are invited in by tactility and materiality but cannot quite see or understand the space beyond.
rooms
Suite
BREEZEWAY
DOLLHOUSE
Artist Statement
Rooms is a new series in the memory palace I am building—an evolving architectural space I visualize to organize and recall information. Each painting in this series functions as a floor plan of a single room in which I place multiple memories associated with that space in my palace.
map
Bloomsburg
Stoney Brook
Metcalf
