My work engages the language of abstract painting by taking up it's vocabulary and investing it with a critical practice of synthetic hybridization.  I prefer to emphasize an evolving body of work that attempts to problematize itself in relationship to specific ideas about perception, style and historical/contemporary discourses.  As an artist, I am continually interested in the gap between what we perceive and what we believe or comprehend.  As a painter,  I am intrigued by the unique resilience of a painting to be both an object and a window into illusionistic space.  My paintings intentionally indulge in the material affirmation of paint and the subjective use of pictorial illusion to generate cognitive dissonance.  I enjoy playing with the codes of aesthetic association while continually work towards the development of a personal idiolect. In my work, I strive to complicate the solidification of signs, categories and binaries by exploring the possibilities of visual slang and the threshold between representation and abstraction.