These paintings are intended to provide a phenomenal or retinal experience while simultaneously investigating certain practices associated with Modernist painting. According to Jean-Francois Lyotard, “the aim of the painter......... is to render presence.”* I’d like the viewer to experience these paintings as such, as a perception before intellection which holds the viewer in the present moment rather than transporting him/her elsewhere.

    Color and light are very important aspects of the paintings, as well as the suggestion of spatial/perceptual indeterminacy. In their making, these paintings reveal evidence of the "hand" as well as the intimation of other processes, and attempt to incorporate a balance of both accident and control, to be neither entirely flat nor entirely illusory and through these means to reference the Modernist conception of the Sublime while undermining it’s so-called “purity”, be it expressive or conceptual. Likewise they are an attempt to investigate what a feminine Sublime might look like.