Artist Statement

I am a part and symptom of blurry cultural boundaries, performing on a stage of vernacular cannibalizations. I focus my attention in the migration of cultural objects, narratives, practices, and myths. 

I address episodes in political history, the history of art and personal history to generate open-ended conversations among viewer, artist and subject. It is finally, the relation in between these three players that bring the work to completion.  I am invested in generating projects that always leave space for the public to intervene and share in the authorship of the piece. I have found that surrendering authorship allows for responsible collaboration and active reflection. 

Drawing as understanding, drawing as seeing, drawing as analysis and drawing as a mode of engagement is at the center of my practice. Lately I have been working on monumental scale material drawings that allow the public to make marks extending the active life of the drawing and sharing both agency and responsibility. I believe my work tangoes with the process of the Baroque painting drive and the presentational strategies and formal undertones of Minimalist art and some of the conceptual elements of Arte Povera, a fundamental contradiction but a world of possibilities for staging.