Care to Notice
There is a heaviness to secrets that lightens when I take them off of my chest and depict them in paintings. The nature of what artist and writer Mira Schor calls “modest painting” is not to call attention to the paintings, but to ask the viewer to care to notice them. Some of the people around my paintings will understand their request for intimacy,
but they do not call attention to themselves. They require the approach of the viewer, much like the sharing of a secret requires a confidante. How can the passing of unspoken, intimate information be accomplished through a painting? My work explores this question by engaging non-traditional painting surfaces derived from my own lifestyle with personal subject matter in a conversation surrounding the things I
keep to myself.
keep to myself.







