Scanned from various home furnishing catalogs (i.e. Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, Williams and Sonoma), and blurred to the point of only the simplest definition, these images are first printed on rag photo paper. To these I paint dots, spare lines or brush strokes of gouache to suggest spaces or objects in flux, that might be both forming or dissolving. It is a kind of perceptual casting for recognition or meaning. I am curious about the dialogue between what is remembered and what is seen. The boundaries or slippage of an image’s definition interest me the most. I manipulate my images to position them on the verge of multiple possibilities that reveal embedded assumptions, associations and deep poetic resonances in the mundane.
Woven Echo, 2022, Gouache on rag photo paper, 17 x 18.5”.
This Stillness, or That Held Breath, 2022, Gouache on rag paper, 20.5 x 15.75”.
Heard from What is Between, 2023, Gouache on rag photo paper, 19.7 x 16”.
Rumpled Red, 2022, Gouache on rag photo paper, 15.75 x 21”.
Thought Float, 2023, Gouache on rag photo paper, 14.5 x 21”.
Paused, perhaps, 2023, gouache on rag photo paper, 21.5 x 17.1”.
Through Waves, Net Bound, 2022, Gouache on rag photo paper, 21.5 x 17”.
Untitled, 2020, gouache on rag photo paper, 18 x 22”.
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 8 x 5”.
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 20 x 12 1/4".
Untitiled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 12 x 18".
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 6 x 8".
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 6 x 8".
Untitled, 2014, rag photo paper and silkscreen, 20 x 12 1/4".
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 20 x 12 1/4".
Untitled, 2015, photo paper and gouache, 18x17"
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 6 x 8".
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 9x5".
Untitled, 2015, Gouache on rag photo paper, 8 x 7".
Untitled, 2013, Gouache on rag photo paper, 17 x 22".
Untitled, 2013, Gouache on rag photo paper, 17 x 22".
These pieces begin with images scanned from various home furnishing catalogs (Pottery Bran, Crate and Barrel, Williams and Sonoma, etc.) and interior design magazines. Once printed they were modified with layers of silkscreened line drawings and hand painted elements in gouache. I am fascinated by the carefully constructed, highly marketable realities the catalogs present. They are intimate facades embedded with preconceived values and narratives. They allow us to construct or maintain our identities and self-perceptions. They give form to larger cultural forces such as fashion, class structure, economic and social status and global marketing.
Untitled, 2020, digital print on rag paper, silkscreen, gouache, 18”x22”
Untitled, 2021,digital print on rag paper, silkscreen, gouache, 18”x22”
Cataloscape #5, 2008, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Cataloscape #7, 2008, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Pottery Barn #14, 2010, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 22x17"
Cataloscape #8, 2011, digital print on paper, gouache, 12x18"
Pottery Barn #10, 2007, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Pottery Barn #12, 2010, digital print on paper, gouache, silkscreen, 17x22"
Pottery Barn #9, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Pottery Barn #8, 2007, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Untitled, 2007, ditital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 20x26”
Cataloscape #3, 2007, digital print on paper, slikscreen, gouache, 17x22”
Pottery Barn #7, 2007, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Pottery Barn #6, 2007, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Cataloscape #2, gouache on digital print, 17x22”
Pottery Barn #15, 2011, Digital print on paper, gouache, 12x18"
Pottery Barn #5, 2006, digital print on paper, silkscreen, gouache, 17x22"
Two sided digital prints were painted and cut to suggest intertwining spaces and realities.
Silkscreen on rag paper, gouache, 18”x26”
Silkscreen on rag paper, gouache and watercolor, 22”x 24’
