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Living in Brooklyn.
Currently: MFA Candidate, Brooklyn College

Artist Statement:

My work will usually start with a monotype and memories of childhood places. I grew up in a rural area of the Hudson Valley region. The art I make is all about memory. I tend to work from a stream of consciousness rather than drawing an overall composition first.
I don't know how my work would have evolved if I were still living in the environments I paint. I think that remembering the qualities of a particular place leaves room for me to invent and focus on the execution of line, value and form in a less conventional way than if I were to work on sight or from photographs.
My process of pulling a monotype involves allowing the paint to move across the paper while passing through the press, changing the initial image painted onto the glass. This brings forth other forms as well as allowing for the passage of time to become evident in the work. There is a movement of materials on the paper and, in a successful print, a sense of time and movement perceived by the viewer.

I have recently explored the silkscreen process- finding a place to combine ideas present in the monotypes with the color and flow of my drawings.

I see the drawings as finished works on their own. They begin with spontaneity; I start with water, washing it onto the paper, I draw into that and move on from there.