The video/sound below is my most recent artist statement from November, 2023.

I am an artist living and working in San Marcos, TX.  I am a professor at Texas State University where I teach drawing and foundations. 

My work, a combination of painting, drawing, performance, and video, deals with boundaries.  What makes us want to separate vision from the physical body?  Why do we contain and define images the way we do? What’s the difference between my art and my life, my “self” and others? What happens when those kinds of boundaries are blurred?  

To accomplish this blurring, I manipulate the edges of the picture plane, making it soft, irregular, jagged, broken or unbroken, sometimes leaning in to a traditional, rectangular structure. I see painting and drawing as methods for exploring separations between mind and body, self and other.  I use them to see my life against a busy backdrop of pop culture images.  Within paintings, I treat my subject matter with an impulse to disintegrate open rather than collect and contain. The lines form bodies are discontinuous. Background and foreground mingle but never fully flatten. Objects become each other. Ambiguity is important to me. Performance, video and sound works build on my experiments in painting by dramatically expanding the boundaries of the art object, making the difference between art and life less discernible.  

I am influenced by feminist artists like Adrian Piper and Carolee Schneemann as well as by literary and philosophical precedents set by Chris Kraus and Julia Kristeva. I am equally influenced by male artists who innovate around the meaning and function of the picture plane and history of painting, such as Rackstraw Downes, Pieter Schoolwerth, and Francis Bacon.