I am a mostly 2D artist creating non-representational tableaus. Grids, patterns, repeat linear elements, and biomorphic forms create a distinctive visual vocabulary. Discrete styles – calligraphic, gestural, and geometric – move through my drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. My watercolors recall Helen Frankenthaler’s canvases in concentration on a centralized mass often foregrounding white space or emptiness. Where Frankenthaler’s expansive canvases often conjure landscapes, my tightly composed images create intimacy, evoking interiority. Transcribing sentiments at once subjective and objective makes the works evocative, and universally legible. Some of the gestural, expressionist qualities of Abstract Expressionists can be seen in my oil paintings which move outward, employing a broad compositional strategy. As the watercolors, they Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, using color and shape for rhythm and balance. Color is employed compositionally for order.