Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

My recent paintings evolve through an intuitive process of layering, revision, and responsiveness, allowing meaning to remain fluid and indeterminate. Through oil’s luminosity and slow-drying nature, I explore how surface becomes a site of removal and accumulation—where gesture, touch, and time converge. Lately, transparent washes and shifting, often striped, structures create fields that oscillate between containment and rupture, where underlying layers shimmer through as both formal strategy and philosophical propositionEach painting hovers between clarity and dissolution, revealing traces of decision, hesitation, and change. I’m drawn to the instability of form and the way perception continually reconfigures what we see and know. I approach painting as a living process: layered, searching, and always in flux. Rather than illustrating fixed ideas, the work unfolds through doing—where image emerges gradually, unexpectedly, and often with a certain productive uncertainty. In this way, each painting becomes a temporary resolution—a window, a wall, and ultimately a mirror—within a larger continuum of becoming.

While at Headlands

At Headlands, I plan to develop a new series of large-scale paintings that extend my exploration of surface, light, and perception. My process is intuitive and responsive—built through touch, revision, and slow layering that allows meaning to remain fluid. The time and space of the residency will offer a unique environment to work expansively and let multiple paintings unfold in conversation. The particular light and atmosphere of the Marin landscape are rumored to have an impact on residents, and I’m curious to see how this environment might subtly shape my palette and tempo. I see this period as a moment to step outside the familiar rhythms of my studio, to listen more closely to the work as it reveals itself through process, and to engage in dialogue with a community of artists similarly invested in discovery and transformation.