My artistic practice investigates the dialogue between architectural form, material surface, and spatial experience. Drawing on theories of space, place, and environmental psychology, my work examines how the built environment influences our emotional connection to a place. I am interested in the paradox between permanence and impermanence, how buildings evolve, decay, and retain traces of human interaction.
Through painting, drawing, and printmaking projects, I abstract architectural forms into compositions that oscillate between image and object. These works extend beyond the traditional picture plane, adopting architectonic shapes that evoke façades, thresholds, and transitional spaces. Each piece reflects the material beauty found in everyday structures and the rhythms of renewal embedded in built environments.
I want viewers to make connections between the colors, lines, textures, and forms in my artwork and those found in their interactions with the constructed environment.
Studio research and teaching are intertwined in my practice. I encourage students to engage with spatial and material perception as both concept and process, emphasizing how surface, color, and form mediate our relationship to place. Influenced by phenomenological approaches to perception and the writings of theorists such as Yi-Fu Tuan and Gaston Bachelard, my work situates itself at the intersection of embodied experience and constructed space.
Recent residencies and international collaborations have furthered this inquiry, allowing me to engage with architectural heritage and landscape as living frameworks of memory and meaning. My ongoing research and creative production continue to explore how art can reframe our understanding of the environments we inhabit, where the aesthetic and the spatial merge, revealing the poetry of the built world.