My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, and contemporary art theories. Most influential are developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre. Specifically I am enamored of Spiritual Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Impressionism, Post-minimalism, Pattern & Decoration, and New Image Painting. 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. 

All of this impacts the concept of a given series, and how it eventually looks. For example, I executed my recent 'AutoAbstraction' portfolio with gesturally abstracted graffiti-like marks, and I resolved a few of the paintings using a straight forward geometric approach. My palettes were inspired by a combination of my own personal coloring––I.e. brown eyes, dark hair, and olive skin, and the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, a Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, and different paint brands premixed colors. See them in the '2021-23 AutoAbstraction' gallery on this site.