Artist Statement

“I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions – no one seeing what they are." -G O’K

i.
IN GLORY OF.....
{{{Explosions. Ruptures. Excess. The spaces and vibrations between the lines, reading through layers, what makes the words mean? Means what world? A cut, a wound, incision. Splatter of color on white. Broken piece of wood. Cast off refuse of society, decorated to the bounds. Take the place and make what’s beautiful, into deeper. Truth, ugly is to-wards excavation. Paints intimate, really. Scars scab secret silence. Speak sacred, speak trees. Something moves through. Through you! Through us. I we am are real all here together. Color mishmash technaswirl. Through becoming anecdote abjection. Part by part. Free sweep sensate. In through this though too. Hyperbole. Narration. Wandering wondering form. Breaks barriers in perceived abstraction. Channels energy like mystic magic guru. Feels things. Is woman, can roar. Pures poetry. Infinites revolt. }}}

ii.
Refined
I paint, I perform, I assemble. In each form of composition, I am channeling, collecting rich source material from invisible forces, reaping the fruits of nature and culture for inspiration. I artist am scavenger. I excavate from collective subconscious, letting intuition follow.

Abandoning brush in moments of painterly trance, I squirt color straight from the tube, blend soft tones with my fingers, smear shades with my whole hand. Patterns flow seamlessly into each other as the movement of the piece evolves. I paint with my body, my whole form, wearing marks and splatters like mud, ritualistic decorations.

Inspired by feminist studies, psychoanalytic theory, and literature, my paintings express sensations unintelligible in symbolic language. They reveal the subtle energies of a specific present, drawing comparisons to Abstract Expressionism. My brush reorganizes the complexity and chaos of contemporary life, communicating vibrantly in the abstract language of motion, pattern, color, & form.