Weekend visits to my father’s shop where he painted hand-lettered signs (or do you mean, where he hand painted lettered signs.?) was where my fascination with type, letterform, and signage began. Studying drawing and printmaking in college furthered my passion for the purity, strength, and beauty of black and white imagery. I went off to work as a graphic designer specializing in logos. This pushed my understanding of the power of positive and negative shape and form. It’s in the areas between black and white, the grey areas that now unite and define my values, as they exist today. 

This show is the coming together of my past, my expectations of the future, and their intersecting in the present. It is my ongoing search for knowing the experiences relationships that have crossed my path, a pursuit of identity and soul, and a search for truth. It is the intersection of these moments that create shape and texture transforming into another landscape both abstract and literal. It is a collision between order and chaos, truth and lies, fantasy and reality, where I find balance. The looseness of this new body of work is an effort of my using the past to discover a fresh and freer flow of my creative process. These intersections are both an inspiration