Blueprint Paintings
2022 / Uprise Art NYC
Artist Talk at Uprise Art NYC, 4/17/2022
2022
A blueprint is a plan for the future. I think of my paintings as data visualizations of my lived experience. In the midst of our current pandemic, I’m bringing both modes together to reprise Blueprint Paintings, a meditation on feelings of vertigo, control and lack-of-control in a world of accelerating complexity.
My subjects include bitterroot flowers (Lewisia rediviva), nuclear weapons, chrysanthemums and Covid graphs ('flatten the curve’) — all painted in muted-cerulean. In a different visual layer, I’m painting brightly colored trompe l'oeil tape marks to invoke a sense of motion and the idea of fixing things in place.
Combined, these modes and subjects register the difficult truth that beauty is often paired with danger, and that confusion may precede insight.
2014
Hartnett Gallery / University of Rochester / Press release / Review
