My paintings are abstract improvisations departing from an informal perspective grid. In the course of improvising, I favor the most vivid and painterly accidents, following wherever they lead. Some accidents happen to mimic representational devices—light and shadow, figure and ground— and these cues slowly knit together into a subject suggesting imagery, perhaps even narrative.The problem is that I am, nevertheless, an abstract painter. But it’s a necessary problem –– for me, the whole crux of the art of painting. Somehow, the tail must be made to wag the dog.
