2018 S Painting

Born: 1969 Place of birth: Camp Springs, Maryland Currently resides: New York, New York My paintings are self-contained, but connected through color and compositional similarity. Architectonic in feel, they incorporate both the palette and geology of the natural world and the vertical geometries of the urban environment. In the process of creating a work, I throw compositional and aesthetic roadblocks in my path and then improvise my way to a solution, while avoiding resolving problems so thoroughly that my paintings seem pat or pretty. In leaving hints of previous misdirections imperfectly repressed, the resulting pentimento gives the work its inner life.