Artist Statement

My primary goal when I approach a painting surface is to make a unified image which balances subject, aesthetic, and the visible intent: The visible intent, to me, is the truth of the picture. This truth is what everyone else is able to see but the artist herself has to struggle to see. If a picture is too academic then to me it fails to be art, in the sense that the intent when painting the picture was mostly, or overbearingly, technical. Only when the technical itself is the subject of the picture can this work and work well. This is also true of primitivism. There needs to be aspects of the work which make it balanced. The most rigorous art, when successful, does this with minimal usages, or maximum useages of devices (or lack of devices which is in itself a device). I want to keep growing and think of new dimensions so that like art itself, my thoughts on art, are fluid. Art and art-making is more like dance and music in this way than like the craft it is often associated with.  I place immense personal value on the evolutionary nature of art in the sense that within all it's riskiness, is all it's possibilities, both materially and intellectually.