Grids form a core part of my practice and are a frequent touchstone to which I return. In her seminal essay, Grids, art historian Rosalind Krauss declared that "There are two ways the grid functions. One is spatial; the other is temporal...Flattened, geometricized, ordered, it is antinatural, antimimetic, antireal." She continues, "Unlike perspective, the grid does not map the space of a room or a landscape or a group of figures onto the surface of a painting." The appealing part of the rigidity of the grid and its long association with abstraction is breaking it down, fracturing and disrupting it, or distorting its imposing presence.
grid, 2021, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches
arrheton/aneu logou, 2019, oil on panel, 15.75 x 15.75 inches
Sunstone, 2020, oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches
The Forest (After Rousseau), 2021, oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches
Untitled, 2021, oil on cigar box
Hexafoo, 2021, oil on panel, 14 x 14 inches
Broken Column (After Kahlo), 2021, oil on cigar box
Untitled, 2018, oil on cigar box
Screen (Pipopipette Variant), 2017, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
Compass Rose, 2016, oil on panel, 15 x 15 inches