My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, color theory, and contemporary art theory. Most influential are developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre. Particularly impressive are the movements within abstraction, especially 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; technically I use a combination of automatist, gestural, and geometric 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 became my '2021-2023 AutoAbstraction' portfolio, I took a post-feminist or gender/sex inclusive, identity-based approach. My palette was inspired by a combination of my inherited Mediterranean coloring––I.e. brown eyes, dark hair, and olive skin, by the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, a Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, and different paint brands premixed colors. Then, I executed most of the paintings with gesturally abstracted graffiti-like marks, and I resolved one of the large-scale murals using a hard-edge or geometric painting method.