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                      My artwork provides refuge from my struggle in society, and is an outlet to become present in the moment. Breaking up structured, formal art is my effort to break the structure that shackles me to the system's wound tight within our culture.             

              For the past two years I have been exploring abstract painting with many types of paint and surfaces.  I heavily explore the effects of gravity and physical through dripping and throwing paint. I am focused on color theory, paint application variation, and layering, exposing, re-layering to re-expose to provide depth and energy in my artwork. This use of natural energy intrigues me because it allows me to put physical effort and emotion into painting and serves as a way to pull the delicate brushstroke out of a passionate pursuit. I am interested in creating imbalances and problems within a painting through force. This allows me to critically think about each piece to answer the questions that are created. This process allows gravity and fluid motion to answer these decisions organically with rhythm, pattern, stability, depth and balance.

          This process began as a product of a theft of my art supplies, which unexpectedly led me to a much-needed artistic answer. My brother gifted me a bucket of used sheet rock mudding tools, and I found it therapeutic to use them for art in an active, physical method. Gaining interest in the effect gravity has on paint, I have studied Jackson Pollock to understand his methods. I began studying with house paint, which had the correct consistency to drip all together, and used social media to locate and utilize salvaged paint for my process. I build my own canvas with salvaged wood as well, to more intimately bring me into my process. The intensive labor involved, coupled with organics ways of attaining needed supplies, gives me the power to grapple with my personal struggles with life. We all struggle with life one way or another. It the path we choose to persevere through adversity that shapes us.

Bio

             I am attending San Francisco Art Institute for a Batchlors of Fine Arts, majoring in Painting and minoring in Printmaking. I have extensively studied Art History and Studio Art at Santa Rosa Junior College. I am an Art Handler for Caldwell Snyder of San Francisco and St Helena, and was an Art Consultant and Operations Assistant for Aerena Galleries, located in Napa Valley and Healdsburg with four main galleries and several resort sculpture gardens. In my community of Sonoma County. I have become an important part of my former school’s art community by collaborating in many of the exhibitions held throughout the years, setting a high standard in receiving art scholarships, and sharing my journey with the student art community. I have curated my work at many local establishments, held a solo exhibition with collaboration from local musicians, participated in Petaluma’s “Art in the Park”, and presented a live and communal painting exhibit during a local, charitable music and arts festival, “Rivertown Revival”. 

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