My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, color theory, and art theory. Most influential are developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre. To me, particularly impressive are Spiritual Abstraction, Orphism, 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. Technically I use a combination of automatist, gestural, and geometric abstraction approaches. 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 of a given series, and how it eventually looks. For example, to execute recent works in what is now my "2021-2025 AutoAbstraction" portfolio, I took a post-feminist (gender and sex inclusive), identity-based approach. My palette and marks were inspired by a combination of my inherited Mediterranean appearance––I.e. brown eyes, curly dark hair, and olive skin, 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. I executed most of the paintings with gestural and abstracted graffiti-like marks, and I resolved one of the large-scale murals using a hard-edge or geometric painting method.