My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, and contemporary art theorie. Most influential are developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre- and more specifically I am enamored of Spiritual Abstraction, Abstract Impressionism, Post-minimalism, Pattern & Decoration, and New Image Painting periods. Philosophically I am positioned within phenomenology and feminist aesthetics. Methodologically I work as an autotheorist, and technically I use a combination of automatist, gestural, and geometric approaches. Materially I begin a group of paintings with acrylics on gessoed canvases or linens that I sometimes complete in oils. This all impacts the concept of a given series, which affects how the work within it eventually looks. 

In my recent 'AutoAbstraction' paintings, I executed most with gesturally abstracted graffiti-like marks, and I resolved a few in a simpler geometric manner. Since my palettes were inspired by my own personal coloring- i.e. brown eyes, dark hair, and olive skin, a Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, the Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, and different paint brands premixed colors- all are effectively post post-minimal. This leads to psychosexual and/or abstracted figurative interpretations. See them in the '2021-23 AutoAbstraction' gallery on this site.