ABOUT
A Brooklyn based artist and architect, I make work that surveys an array of media including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, design, and curating. Merging these mediums, my art maps the fluctuating horizons of human scale versus landscape, manifested physically, cognitively, and emotionally through workings of the body and landscape.
Classical and Contemporary training in painting, environmental design, and architecture at Maryland Institute College of Art, Parsons The New School for Design, New World School of the Arts, and Syracuse University, has contributed to my impressionist travel to over 25 countries. Growing up sailing from the Tropics, with an eye towards discovery, I tack concepts of mapmaking, landscape, rendering, and the void into my work.
I seek to reveal impact and response mechanisms in psychological undercurrents through the visual mapping of photography and drawing in my latest series. The work from turbulent past experiences was recognized through an artist grant curated by MoMa’s Agnes Gund for VSA Arts in 2006, with an exhibition at the Smithsonian, and Kennedy Center, along with other exhibitions around the U.S. An ongoing series titled “Figurative Landscapes”, these visual maps on wood are an architectural approach to drawing that introduces stream of consciousness pen and pastel meditations onto the landscape topography of the existing wood grain.This method juxtaposes temporal lobe thought patterns with the scalar relationship of landscape site lines, and wood detail. Work from this series will be exhibited at the Armory show in March.
My work also identifies the notion of the sectional void/negative space as a magnifier and impetus, as well as a source to be replenished. In the series titled “Objects of Desire”, the void as object and protagonist becomes an embodied relationship. Constantly analyzing inner thought patterns and outer communal dispositions, my concerns of personal discovery and environmental focus appear not only in my artwork, but in architecture, performance and curatorial endeavors as well. See The Last Supper show at www.lambastic.com
The “Landscape Bodies” series of photographs evoke a constant shift in scale between human tactile space, and endless landscape.Skewing perspectives of the body to unidentifiable proportions, these photographs ask the viewer to review and re-imagine their identity and place in the landscape.Our view and manipulation of our bodies is exemplary of our relationship to the environment and the built world.
