Abstract Artist Statement:

My art explores the idea of creating space through simple shapes and grids which play with digital concepts through optical illusions rendered by hand in a minimalistic, abstract manner. Both modern and contemporary in style, my works explore the middle ground as I attempt to understand the contemporary culture around me. I find myself looking at the structural elements of what make up a city in our contemporary age and the art that follows. 

With this fixation of what is around me and the make-up of urban landscapes I focus on grids and shapes to become my building tools to form composition. These shapes and grids come from a realization of my environment and a desire to locate these orderly subjects on my travels. This fixation of taking from my environment and the progression it takes helps establish a basic grounding that I can work off of. 

I want the viewer to feel a sense of depth and order. A feeling that the paintings are buildings and I am the architect mapping out the next move. From there I look at light that is created by these inspirations to inform some of my color choices. The other aspects of my color choices are a direct translation of history and emotion of which I refer to. These aspects relate to why I choose to look at the urban landscape, modernism and contemporary trends.