I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of industrial materials:enamel paint, jute, plastic asphalt, muslin, cardboard, soil, marble dust, etc. Additionally sculpture and printmaking figure into my practice. My work is born out of relationships to or qualities within nature that connect with my psyche. The treatment of paint and material evokes environmental associations that are experienced and remembered through the body. The work has a present power to confront and resist conditioning towards shock value, immediate recognition of imagery, and the seduction of the virtual. Materiality is still the baseline power that painting is equipped with for it’s infinitepossibilities. For the past 24 years I have been an active professional artist in New York, mounting local and international exhibitions of my own work and curating exhibitions and projects of fellow artists