Vestige

In this presentation of paintings, I explore ideas of time, erasure, rusticity, and the trace history of what remains in the application of paint and the removal of it. Here, technique and creative process is critical to the outcome: drawing, painting, scraping, stripping, and repainting are actions worked in layers over time in different sequences. In depicting subjects ranging from utilitarian vessels and archaic animal figures to organic patterns and minimalist abstractions, the suggestion of a gesture, a line, or a form is preserved to emphasize a visual expression of something present or removed to suggest the absence of something that once was—vestiges of what might be and now are.

2023