Artist Statement

In my ongoing series An Inventory of Traces, color operates as both material and metaphor: gradients become repositories for memory, while layered surfaces suggest accumulation, erasure, and return. I mine color from memory, photos, interviews, and artifacts from my family. Acrylic paint mixed with pumice gel is swiped across the canvas to conceal extraneous possibilities. Through slow, attentive processes of application and concealment, thin traces of color are revealed. Simultaneously, illusionistic space is anticipated and denied.

My practice is grounded in an ongoing inquiry into color, memory, and perception, approached through abstraction as a means of holding experiences that resist literal representation. I make this work to better understand how lived moments—personal, cultural, and historical—leave traces that persist beyond narrative clarity.

The Inventory is a collection of color studies based on experiences that have shaped my life. Lines, likeness, and edges are absent but the pigments remain. I approach this ongoing series like a sentimental hoarder of memories. Each gradient and incision are both spectacular and everyday, familiar and distant. The paintings are quiet provocations, asking the viewer to reflect on the meanings and power of color.