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Artist’s Statement
This series of painted sculptures relies on viewer movement to alter colors. As one walks by each abstraction, the color changes and shifts through optical mixture -- the result of overlapping colored metal screens. Dimension seems to change as warm and cold colors advance and then recede. Occasionally moiré patterns appear that interfere with the mixture and create an illusion.
I enjoy taking a painterly idea and transforming it into three-dimensional space by using brush-like forms that are lighter and flexible. I try to make artwork that suffuses its surrounding spaces with energy through cast shadows and movement. Elements spinning, spiraling, ejecting, orbiting, add a sense of vitality and buoyancy that contrasts with the fixed nature of wall constructions.
Manipulating meaning through juxtaposing varied references intrigues me. A single element can look either magmatic or cellular depending on where it is positioned within the composition. My aim is to combine various macro- and micro-scaled elements that range from galaxies to subatomic particles into a single unified expression. I want the final result to function as a three-dimensional painting.
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