WALL

The paintings in this series represent individual walls. Decorative wallpaper pattern is a cue for the nostalgia of time passed, of home, of childhood. I reconstruct and re-member interior spaces enclosed by walls, marking them with layers of fulvous liquids suggesting stains and spoil, the ideal inferred by the pattern is here tarnished and repurposed. In "bulb" the atmosphere is lit by the light bulb, the space defined is both deep and blocked by surface texture. As the corrosion of the fireplace in "mantle" implies a crumbling of something once magnificent, the juxtaposition of the mantle and the rich gold-red surface suggests unfulfillable desire. In "vent" the screen is made of tactile architectural symbols. We look from both above the space [floor plan view] and into the space from the front [elevation view] and see an intimate space behind which looms the mysterious, the unknown. In these paintings, there are moments of clarity and obfuscation—of almost being able to see through a screen into deep space. We are invited in by tactility and materiality but cannot quite see or understand the space beyond.