Cut-out Paintings:
In 2003 I started a series of still life paintings using paper
cut-outs as the object of study. What interested me immediately
was the duality inherent in the subject.
These are representational oil paintings and mixed media on paper
that present the cut-outs as still life objects placed on table tops,
floors, or walls. The house shapes are of particular interest to me because they create multiple worlds, hermetic yet simultaneously geocentric, even
geomorphic, as their shapes reference urban/suburban dialogues or
politics on one level, and literal tectonics on an altogether formal
level; that multiple reference-switch that constantly turns on and
off is essential. I like the fact that within milliseconds neighborhoods appear, conflicts emerge, yet silence pervades, and folded paper returns.

"Areas of Refuge" is a new project that will eventually incorporate the bent wire sculptural models used in the studio that relate to the line drawings and consequential linear paintings of the paper cut-out forms. The paintings and drawings have the suggestion of depth of form in open space while remaining quite flat on the two dimensional surface.