Artwork > Verb Series, 2015-2017

In these works I explore the boundaries between realism and abstraction, the body and the spirit, restraint and abandon, reason and intuition. How delineated, permeable are these boundaries?
Each work originates from an image that evokes a strong visceral reaction in me; images full of movement and intensity. Within the contained rectangle of the paper, I attempt to capture this power with a gesture drawing - my immediate, direct, and physical response.
The gesture becomes the underlying structure of the work, which I then improvise upon through the addition of various media. My process moves between immediacy and caution as I explore the boundaries between the real and abstract and attempt to mine and capture the ineffable from the material world.

Lifting, I
Gesso, charcoal, graphite, & pastel
20" X 27"
2015
Bending, I
Gesso, charcoal, & graphite
20" X 27"
2015
Bending, II
Gesso, charcoal, graphite, & pastel
20" X 27"
2015
Leaving
Gesso, charcoal, & graphite
20" X 27"
2015
Multiplying
Gesso, acrylic & charcoal on paper
36" X 60"
2014
Dropping
Gesso, charcoal, & graphite
20" X 27"
2015
Charging
Gesso, charcoal, & graphite
28" X 20"
2015
Looking, I
Gesso, charcoal, & graphite
20" X 27"
2015
Looking, II
Gesso, charcoal, graphite, & pastel
20" X 27"
2015
Building
Gesso, acrylic, charcoal, & graphite
20" X 27"
2015