My drawing practice is central to several overlapping bodies of work, which include
site-specific installation, photography, painting, and sculpture.
A recurring theme in my work is the investigation of the boundaries that separate simple perception and thorny knowledge. Banal, overlooked architectural elements and spaces - tiled walls, decorative trim and molding, bricks and mortar - even pictures in galleries are the physical locations that act as placeholders for ‘simple perception’. I subvert these spaces with subtle interventions that often pass as the thing itself. Adhesive tape passes for grout, photos replace subjects, drawings pass for graph paper.
My drawing consists of the creation and augmentation of structural circumstances. Whether these conditions are constructed of graph paper or architectural structures, I subtly undermine the certainty and order denoted by their object-hood. With pencil and ruler I make graph paper drawings often with imbedded semi-narratives. I apply sculptural devices to create drawings with abberations in scale and also devise obliquitous deviations of lines that then generate multiple unique drawings.
The confrontation and reconciliation of the viewers gaze within these booby-trapped situations invite an “active aesthetic reading,” exploring the boundaries between perception and knowledge.
If our gaze defines how we relate to the world and how we participate in shaping it then the shape of our participation is contigent on what we perceive to be the parameters of our engagement.
I endeavor to heighten the importance of perceiving the fluidity of these parameters.
Spring 2011