Time Frames

BFA Art Exhibition
April 6th, 2017
John C. Williams Gallery
Collegedale, TN

Art Statement:
My paintings explore the visual and tactile experiences of paint and color as a way of evoking a memory. Experiences are often fragmented, as our minds retain some impressions stronger than others.

There is also an acceptance of the fact that memories will fade with time and are partially lost forever. Digital images and communication give us the false impression that these memories can become immune to such distortion, but they too become corrupted. These errors too are embraced.

My visual inspirations come from pixelated stills of video calls with loved ones in other countries, and other fleeting moments of importance that I seek to preserve but know I cannot recall exactly as experienced. The work is an attempt to retain the memory of these in physical paintings and sculptures. The separation from context, time, and place transforms these artworks from an attempt to remember a specific event in the past, into an interpretation of an experience found in the act of making.

We use frames to isolate and highlight specific memories or people that we cherish. The repeated element of the hard-edged frame forms, contrasted with the abstract and nonrepresentational use of paint and material, exemplifies the shifting values placed on individual memories.
It is my intention to invite the viewer to celebrate these memories, as well as to create awareness of the importance of everyday events.