Artist Statement:

My work comes from the desire to make paintings based on two seemingly irreconcilable systems. One is the grid, whose structure expresses the ordering drive of humanity. The other is the use of physical gestures to express our undying connection to nature. This duality exists in man’s relationship to science and spirituality.

Our desire to understand the incomprehensible is part of the human condition. I am interested in the relationship between what we can make and what we can only dream of. Art history feeds my work. Christian symbolism was once as understandable to the common viewer as fast food logos are today. I believe that we as a culture feel as if something is missing from our lives. We search, yet it is always out of reach. How do we fill the god shaped hole inside of us? Or was god never even there?  Can we place order over all this chaos? While I do not expect my paintings to be able answer these questions I do believe that the asking is what they are about.