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Spaces Within Space, 2019. Oil on panel. 28 x 30 in.
The movement of time in spaces and places create
its own novel of time.
As a painter, I pay attention to the commonalities between people and the relationships
they have with their environments. I think about painting as a space that
mediates time and place, bringing together people from a globalized world, and reconciling
the past, present, and future into one unified form. Figures are central to
my compositions. Their colorful, transparent, and collaged surfaces suggest embedded
histories and embodied feelings. My practice has long focused onwomen—
their bodies, as well as their social and societal roles. I use color in a psychological
and symbolic way to describe light as it passes from canvas to canvas and conveys
specific moments and times. Working with a spectrum of transparency and opacity,
I communicate the sensations of an environment such as atmosphere, air, wind,
and speed, all of which evoke the flow and movement of life.