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Artist Statement
The central focus of my painting is infusing human presence in geometric structures. I use color vibration and pattern as a pulse or heartbeat to give images frontality, immediacy and life. Light and form reside on the picture plane and push out from it into the viewer’s space, confronting him/her as an actual person would.

In most cases the paintings are overtly imbued with a figurative presence. In others the figurative qualities are discrete. These beings are born out of the paintings’ structures and merge with urban architecture; simultaneously the figures are those architectural structures.

The paintings’ architectural qualities, their scale, density, and translucent passages are intuitive responses to Manhattan and the visual experience of city life. When gazing upon a skyscraper one is struck by its scale and mass. One is simultaneously taken by the building’s reflective qualities, which seem to subvert the structure’s solidity. The building becomes a canvas, of sorts, which one can visually enter, creating a sense of openness where there is none.

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