Premio Combat Prize

As a gestural abstractionist, I don’t merely accept accidents, deliberately taking risks I cultivate them. I’m interested in what makes an abstract painting seem inexhaustible in form and interpretation. To accomplish this I work to establish myriad connections. Think of synapses with their inexhaustible capacity for linkage. I work with color in a way that echoes across the distances that separate them, enlivening the surface of the canvas to create a pulse of organic vitality. I keep painting until the image is not only clear and harmonious but also animated by a kind of tension: the grand and provocative sort of ambiguity that leaves a work of art open to multiple responses. Renowned art critic Carter Ratcliff describes my paintings best as “Tumultuous Harmonies.” Ratcliff states that: ”The marks’ disruptive force both accentuates and challenges the harmonies that connect underlying colors into a unified field.”