Graduate school brought about many changes. I was no longer afraid to take chances to experiment and to make mistakes. With printmaking, I began to care less about the traditional printmaking fetishes such as clean large borders, editions and archivalness. Painting became increasingly more important to me. During this period working representationally my work was in the middle of both worlds, abstract and representational. Inspired by the work of Jose Parla, Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline, I began to create paintings that mimic the surface of urban environments.
Struggle For Existence, 48" x 48", 2010
During my first quarter in grad school, a colleague lend me an electric sander. Upon receiving the tool, I began to sand back into the layers of my paintings. Working reductively had been a relatively new concept to me, most of my paintings were built up through layers and the idea of carving and sanding back into them never occurred to me until now. The carving and sanding in these pieces are evident.
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