"Above all, my paintings express a love for paint itself; the fleshy, textural quality of oil paint and its luminescence - its thick opacity versus liquid transparency. I work toward exploring the relationship between textural mark-making along with abstraction and individual expression. I work almost exclusively with the figure and am heavily influenced by the Bay Area Painters. I am inspired by contemporary artists Dana Schutz, Jenny Saville, and Cecily Brown who evoke the same aspects of weighted figural content along with a fluid and painterly surface."
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