Artist Statement

For the past year I have been focusing on creating abstract images with the use of skin and makeup. To produce these works I paint and juxtapose different body parts and then photograph them from a close distance.

By producing large prints of these images all wrinkles, skin texture and body hair are accentuated. When looking at these bizarre corporeal images the viewer can tell that the body has been used but he/she cannot always tell what part of the body it is.

While often I allow one image to stand on its own as one piece of art, at times I look to find some kind of connection between these prints and continue to create a site-specific installation where there can be some kind of dialogue and/or tension between these images.

Unwilling to commit myself to one medium I am able to break boundaries between these by creating a single piece while painting on a three-dimensional surface, photographing and editing the images digitally, and then creating a site specific installation. With this work I am also able draw a fine line between figuration and abstraction.