Painting/Print

Many of my paintings and prints develop from the large-format stencils and screen systems created for my installation work. Stencils designed to produce imagery across large hanging mesh screens are brought back into the studio and used to make smaller works on canvas, panel, and paper. Working at this scale allows me to isolate, crop, layer, and reinterpret elements of the larger compositions, while the physical stencil retains traces of its original relationship to the installation.

This iterative approach also allows the material qualities of the mesh to remain present even when the mesh itself is no longer visible. The grid, texture, pressure, and movement of the printing process become embedded in the surface of the painting, creating works that retain a physical connection to the larger installations from which they emerged.