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What is that sensation when you know you’ve just had a very vivid dream but, for the life of you, you cannot remember any details? You’re left only with a residue. You just experienced something but, even as you are becoming aware of this and try to grasp it, the last whispered edges of its form vanish with the morning and it is gone forever.
In my practice I am always pursuing this point of tension that lives somewhere between the sleeping and the waking world. Between opposites. I begin with a blind scribble. And from there, the work maps the conversation, (or argument) that unfolds as I haggle with the material, surface, and image before me. Wings, antlers, arms, half formed faces often show up in the jumble. And if a narrative forms I am careful to keep it open and maintain fluidity of meaning. I am happiest with a piece when it looks like something I recognize but I don't know what exactly - and I can then leave it in a suspended state - becoming and/or dissolving.
Oil painting has been my main medium for most of my life but I have recently been working a lot more on paper with charcoal and graphite and water applied by brush. I call this technique, “Water Drawing”. I feel pulled to this method because it lives somewhere between painting and drawing. It is black and white. The ultimate pair of opposites. Opposites attract. Then they repel. And also they come back together and finally intermingle somewhere between recognition and bafflement.
I work within this space. Like taking a jumble of puzzle pieces and carefully arranging the parts and then when the image begins to form, I re-scramble the pieces, denying myself the satisfaction of conclusion. And in this purposeful obfuscation, I hope to find something of myself in the process.
…You say, “I had a dream!”, flummoxed, first thing in the morning.
“Really? What was it about?”, they might ask you.
“I can’t remember”, you reply.
And then the day comes flooding in with its demands and its culture, and you forget all about it.
BIO
Born in Italy and Raised in Wyoming.
Schooled in Seattle, Maine, Italy, and England.
Moved to NYC in 2004 and have lived here ever since.
Studio in Greenpoint, BK.
I want a dog, a house, a family, and an art career!
CV
1998 Foundation Art year at S.A.C.I. in Florence, Italy.
1999-2002. BFA University of the West of England, Bristol
Shows:
2024 June 15 Botanica Grove Brooklyn, NY Group Show
2024 June 1st and 2nd. Greenpoint Open Studios. Brooklyn, NY
2024 May15- July 15. “Dear Dad, “ TBSP Studios, Brooklyn, NY Solo show
2019 Nowhere Studios Brooklyn, NY Solo show
2010. Bristol- Lisboa Gallery, Lison, Portugal. Solo Show
2002 “Laundrette” Group show, Bristol, England
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