CONTINUUMS

WORKS ON PAPER

Inspired by mid-century design, as well as other traditions and cultures, I study fabrics and patterns in these paintings from the Continuum series. They depict recurring patterns rendered with a deliberately handmade and intuitive attitude of exploration. Classic motifs found on vintage barkcloth from the atomic Eames era and Navajo textiles are among my sources. Mechanically rendered motifs are inverted, stretched and embellished with quirky variations until the assumed geometry becomes skewed and persistently awkward. These small works on paper are often designed to go in diptychs, triptychs and larger groups.