Sculptural Paintings

2016
Conduit Gallery

With my continuous explorations of combining two worlds – Sculptural Paintings combines the hand-made (painting & drawing) and the machine-made (rhino & cnc routing). Technology and the Handmade are two worlds constantly vying for attention in my studio practice. On one hand, I struggle with technology and its lack of the “hand” but I now depend so much on technology to realize my work. Can I make the machine made appear hand-hewn? Can I make the handmade more polished? I have always been inspired by Jean Arp’s wooden wall hangings, I often see them at major art museums around the world and am always drawn to their awkward not quite a painting not quite a sculpture presence on the museum wall – especially in contrast to the other art typically hung around them. I wanted to take cues from my own paintings and apply that same awkward sensibility to three-dimensional wall hangings.