painting
1) From What is an Idea? 2001-2002. About 20 pieces, all dealing with the moment of communication.Toward a highly emotional painting, where a stroke is a signification of some physical feeling: A physical sensation of pain, pleasure, sexuality, or trauma. Sexuality as a response to trauma.
Make-up (56x36 in.)
2) from Love and Capitalism 2002-2003. About 15 pieces. Moving toward a more conceptual work, where things start falling away and a lot more air starts developing in white space on the canvas. What you see is not necessarily how you feel. the question becomes, "Where are we led?". Love and Capitalism as the two major forces of my life. The idea of text becomes prominent within the work itself, How does text affect us?.
Emily with various paintings from series, including Numbers
3) from Paintings for Peace! 2003-2004. Around 30 pieces completed in one summertime. A kind of protest-painting, where as in folding origami cranes for a peace mission or sentiment, paintings are made in great numbers as a kind of constant homage, vigil over, the hope for peace, and the hope for change. Watercolor and text enter the objects.
4) from Top and Bottom 2004 (10 pieces). Experiments with installation and sculpture. How can we really divide sculpture from painting from film from photography? They're all objects, they're all media. Text enters again, a saturation of the use of one color at a time enters as an existential analogy: We constantly separate, objectify, make classifications, to divide our conceptions of things into objects, but then one perception, one container envelops the phenomenon. Our view, our life, our experience, our memory is a constantly singular, generating machine.
5) from Looking for Technology 2004-2005 (series in progress)
"Things I told myself when I was working at the bakery" (2004)
Detail from a sculpture, Music and the un-winged (2005)
