<p>The organic synthesis you see in my work expresses a lifetime of observing natural processes, which I structure as an evolving paradigm from the bottom-up (or topologically from the inside-out) as a process in paint. For me, painting reveals a paradox that is always inherent in the ephemeral: namely timelessness or being in the moment. A native New Yorker, I’ve been influenced by the abstract expressionist painters, who dominated the art scene here when I was a teenager.. Ultimately all painting is abstract, occupying a dimension that is ideal and doesn’t actually exist in nature. We usually view the 2nd dimension in its entirety all at once. In this way a painting may recapitulate a unified field, occupying space… but as a moment in-or out of-time.</p><br /> <p>To some degree I see my work as a microcosm of a geological process. What evolves through the paint medium, which accrues in layers as it flows and later dries on the canvas, is a journey that expresses its adapting to every application and stroke of paint in each work. Here, a vista opens from within the painting itself and generates outward to the surface. What also emerges is the interior space of the painting, be it a still-life bowl of fruit, a complex field of threaded paint, or even a seascape, so that each painting attains its own maximum entropy (its own fullness), as a bounded yet infinite expression of the world.</p><br />