Collisions of Understanding

                                            The Ocean Room  24"x 36"  oil on linen

It has been a while since writing.  I am definitely a slow blogger.  I have immersed myself in spaciousness this past month to engage with insights about my work. My participation in the week-long August intensive at Whale & Star in Miami, Florida  has challenged me to shift the way in which I view and think about my painting.

I am coming to recognize and claim that the ruptures created by inadequate renderings haunt easy recognition and carry the contradictions of making a painting.  Rather than ignoring these I want to acknowledge and respond to them.  To quote curator and art critic Gean Moreno, I do not want my paintings to "settle into an adequate mode of standardization, repetition and competence."

This is the work of my current studio practice.