Artist Statement for Acquisition Consideration EU
My painting practice engages abstraction as an open and sustained inquiry rather than as a stylistic inheritance. Gesture, rhythm, and structure operate as interdependent elements, explored through duration, repetition, and reflective refinement. I am concerned with how abstraction can maintain perceptual clarity and energy while avoiding excess or repetition.
Historical narratives of gestural abstraction, both in Europe and internationally, have often emphasized immediacy, rupture, and expressive freedom. While historically significant, these moments did not exhaust the possibilities of the language. Many canonical works emerged from brief, intense periods of experimentation and were subsequently codified, leaving unresolved questions about rhythm, spatial organization, and compositional judgment. My work enters this space to extend the inquiry through sustained practice rather than imitation or spectacle.
Rhythm in my paintings is informed by over a decade of professional improvisation in experimental music, where freedom is inseparable from structure. Gesture functions through timing, variation, and restraint, rather than accumulation without resolution. My background in architectural construction and restoration further informs the work, instilling attention to proportion, balance, and material coherence. Intuition operates within frameworks of structural and perceptual responsibility.
This approach has produced a body of over 250 large-scale paintings, each exceeding 60 x 72 inches, designed to test abstraction’s capacity for rhythm, structure, and perceptual clarity. Scale is not monumentality; it is a condition for sustained engagement, allowing gesture and structure to unfold relationally across the surface.
My work situates itself within a European and international discourse on abstraction as a living, evolving field. It does not seek to negate historical contributions but to extend the possibilities of the language through critical attention, sustained duration, and openness to complexity.
I offer this body of work for consideration as part of a collection committed to abstraction as a field of inquiry—responsive to history, rigorous in method, and open to future development.
