Interface Painting

Site-specific paintings that conform their shape to the environment. The painted surfaces record their own history.

Emerging out of a desire to investigate shifting topography of forms in the landscape, segmented sculptural paintings have been created to interface with undulating surfaces and organic volumes in order to emphasize these subtle visual events. The segmented sculptural forms responsively shape themselves to the surfaces they are placed upon in order to visually highlight their structural qualities in a tactile way. As the sculptural paintings travel to various locations, the surfaces become layered to the point of creating a sort of subject-specific camouflage representative of qualities of each moment in its history. I am interested in the poetic statement that this activity presents as both a document of exchange with the land, yet also as a physical object which implicitly embeds artifacts of the past as a reminder of how history continues to influence the present moment.

The sculptural paintings also function as a subject for creating perceptually-based paintings which layer observations and changes over time. Disruptions in the painting’s surfaces allow multiple moments in time to be viewed simultaneously resulting in further evolutions of the present moment folding on itself.