My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, art theory and color theory. Most influential in my painting practice is 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre. To me, particularly impressive are Spiritual Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Impressionism, Post-minimalism, Pattern & Decoration, and New Image Painting movements. Philosophically I am positioned within phenomenology and feminist aesthetics. Methodologically I work as an autotheorist. To execute I use a combination of automatist, gestural, and geometric abstraction techniques. And materially I begin a group of paintings with acrylics on gessoed canvases or linens that I sometimes complete in oils. 

All of this impacts the concept and the look of a given series. For example, to execute recent works in my "2021-2025 AutoAbstraction" portfolio, I took a post-feminist (gender and sex inclusive), identity-based approach. My palette was inspired by my inherited Mediterranean appearance––brown eyes, curly dark hair, and olive skin tone––and by the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, a Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, plus different paint brands premixed colors. The brushwork includes a combination of gestural underpainting overlayed with pink and titan green abstracted graffiti marks, and one paintings was resolved with wide vertical hard-edge painted stripes.