I’ll be giving an artist talk at 6:30!

This work centers around my experience of Florida during a Key West residency at the start of 2019. The content of my paintings is largely informed by process in the work and here that extends to paintings made in anticipation of a place, the layered realities of the actual experience of that place and subsequent reshaping of that experience through memory. I am interested how we use the natural world to mediate and idealize our experiences, even while spending more and more of our time detached from our own physical world. My idiosyncratic Florida landscape is filled with dense natural habitats and fragments of worked-over artifice. The paintings have a submerged and dream-like quality, populated with accidental transplants, constant visitors, intrepid blow-ins, and highly adaptive invasives. As a part of my ongoing exploration of precarious systems, this work focuses on ideas of excess, depletion, coexistence, belonging and how they create constant, uneasy change.