My creative vision is indebted to my understanding of developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a spiritually based, feminist-queer painting genre. Within it, most inspiring to me are 'painterly abstraction' (abstract expressionist and abstract impressionist), 'pattern and decoration', and 'new image' movements. Philosophically I am positioned within phenomenology and feminist aesthetics, methodologically I work as an autotheorist, and technically I use automatist methods, often beginning a series with acrylics on gessoed canvases or linens that I sometimes complete in oils. 

For my own painting, to teach painting, and to teach ancient through contemporary art history and post post-modern theory, I do a lot of looking, researching and reading. This impacts the concept of any given series, which sets the stage for how the portfolio eventually looks. In my current work, 'AutoAbstraction,' I executed most of the paintings in a gestural, abstracted graffiti like way. I resolved others in a geometric, non-objective, minimalist style. 

My palettes were inspired by own personal coloring, i.e., my complexion, eye color, etc., and by my investigations into the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, a Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, and different paint brands premixed portrait colors. The resulting works lend themselves to psychosexual and/or abstracted figurative interpretations. See them in the '2021-23 AutoAbstraction' gallery on this site.