Remember Tomorrow
An Exhibition in the Iris and B. Cantor Art Gallery
bed bugs. oil on canvas. 36 x 60 in. 2022.
Installation. Cantor Art Gallery. Worcester MA
citrus tea. oil on canvas. 36 x 60 in. 2022.
botanic. oil on canvas. 24 x 24 in. 2022.
sun daze. oil on canvas. 24 x 24 in. 2022.
red sink. oil on canvas. 24 x 24 in. 2022.
online. oil on canvas. 24 x 24 in. 2022.
Statement
I have always been deeply disturbed by the passing of time. What manifested as an obsessive-compulsive inventory of memories as a child has evolved into a fear of the future and the passing of moments. In an attempt to freeze time I seek the mundane and venture to memorialize the silence and beauty of a still moment in time. I capture moments through the quality of paint, the tangibility and intangibility of my subjects dissolve into space as they do into time.
These less traditionally captured moments hold an intimacy of the domestic space, the unobserved. Momentary experiences are marked by a comfortable silence that can only be found in close relationships and familiar places. I look to the people and spaces I encounter on a daily basis and memorialize these moments for the temporary familiar intimacy they hold.
Painting moments as experienced allows me to capture a single frame and relive those memories through a labor-intensive extension of a moment. My keen observation of people existing in their own minds in which I construct the spaces in which they exist. A fluidity emerges in the relationship between figure and space as details push forward and back in clarity in my mind.
My code of intuition assigns sounds to texture and physical space, people to colors, and air to emotions. Synesthetic beliefs I utilize to interpret the moment on the canvas using color, space, and light to create enhanced atmospheric and psychological effects in my viewer.
Moments of blurred and fluid constructions of space elevate the figures' silent presence to the forefront of importance. The private moment is stained with the passing of time and the impression of tone through material application.
Exhibition Card Designs
