* PAINTING: ARTIST STATEMENT      

As a sculptor, working in and with wood, my paintings reflect and extend my sculptural interests. While developing surface treatments for my sculptures, I became enamored with color and particularly with unexpected color combinations. Painting became a natural outlet for and extension of this fascination with color. Using wood as my “canvas” and the very same lacquers and alkyds that serve as surface treatments for my sculptures, my paintings employ my preferred sculptural materials. In addition, in order to break up the 2-dimensional picture plane, I often cut into and add onto the wood, and I also leave the wood exposed on the sides of the painting, so that the painted panel acts as its own frame, complicating the relationship between painting and sculpture, between 2- and 3-dimensionality.