Residency 2
January 2020

With daily painting-as-meditation, landscape scenes pass into memory by glimpses out the window during a long train commute to-and-from New York City. Inspired by the plein air tradition, intuitive exercises explore a series of relationships while in motion: abstracted observations of nature, the movement of the river, the movement of the body in space and time, and the repetition of scenes in an endless time-loop.  

Created spontaneously and with a hurried hand, the use of traditional oil painting and printmaking techniques provide comparison and contrast to works made in digital media as a painting-as-play, with atmosphere reflecting daily, emotional moods. The works stand as physical artifacts of a temporary moment of free-association, allowing paint and pixels to fall: yielding unanticipated discovery, and finding comfort with imperfection.