b. Montreal, Canada
lives & works in Brooklyn, NY
MFA Visual Arts, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
BFA Studio Arts, Concordia University
I use the interior as a structure for exploring inner life. I build up my paintings through touch, depicting spaces of artistic, cultural, and personal significance to me. These are interiors I experience through archival photographs or memory, the lapses and limits of which prompt me to feel my way around in an attempt to reconstruct, reimagine, re-vision them. The resulting paintings may evoke the intended inhabitant, or else suggest an autonomous sensation of mood, or mental state. As psychological spaces, they can be wandered in the mind: halls of memory, repositories of cultural and historical traces. I’m interested in the subjective experience of spaces, and a phenomenology which guides the resulting depiction or translation. I merge the feeling of the space with its observed appearance.