Neurologists have determined that the old brain holds the seat of our most primal understandings of the world. Goodwill, safety, fear, anxiety, self protection, gravity, sexuality and compulsive behaviors find their basic roots in this lower cerebral core.

I make sculpture and drawings that tap this non-verbal place, provoking emotional, visceral and perceptual responses — an awareness of the sublime. These non-representational works are subtle, rhythmic, and abstract and often manic. The large scale drawings are fields of marks in a variety of linear media, each developed as a system that slowly accumulates to create an abstract matrix of perceptions.

The sculptural works are also drawings, expansive, three-dimensional works made out of wood, thread and wire.  I am interested in the optical and spatial phenomenon that develops in this work, as it spans the outer reaches of our peripheral vision. The works also reference physical systems such as heartbeat, respiration, neural paths and psychological states.

I frequently return to the subtle distinction between drawing as noun and verb as a long held focus in my studio practice. This blurred distinction drives my fascination with an expanded definition of drawing languages and the resurgence of drawing in contemporary art. My collective body of work is an iteration of this language — a reassertion of the age-old desire to understand self in place.

My work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Drawing Center, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Belger Art Center, The Writer’s Place, Macalester College, North Carolina State University as well as venues in New Zealand, Quebec and Japan.  In 2005, I created a permanent collection installation at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Detroit Institute of Art purchased one of my drawings, and I had one person shows at the Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, the Dennos Museum, and the Belger Art Center.  My work was included in a group exhibition “Decelerate” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2006.  In 2009, my work is included in exhibitions at Dolphin Gallery, The Drawing Center in NYC, Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN, and the H2O: Film on Water project in New Hampshire. Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York City will host a solo exhibition of my newest work in January 2010.

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