Color, emotions, rhythms.

There is much joy and tension in my practice. I delight in colors, and in creating organic shapes and abstract landscapes.

My art is a dance of trauma and celebration, which follows internal rhythms. Lust for life transcends the human body, and challenges boundaries between genders, human and non-human, body and landscape. My mantra is “All that live shall die.” The act of painting reenacts the wonder of living and the inevitability of decay and serves as a reminder of the cycle of birth, growth, death and renewal.

With humor, visual puns, evocations of organisms, and of internal and external body parts, I create poetics of biology.

The intuitive process of discovery that characterizes my paintings, finds it sources in artists born at the turn of the twentieth century, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and Helen Frankenthaler; French artists Louise Bourgeois, and Nikki de Saint Phalle. Their legacy is still relevant to my contemporaneity. I also find affinities with American artists of my generation, Sheila Peppe, Carrie Moyer, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

While staining the canvas and creating random shapes with liquid acrylic paint and ink, I build layers by erasing and redesigning the initial marks. The textile sculptures echo the paintings, through a slower and meditative process of weaving threads around a metal frame.