“My current preferred term for my work is ‘hand-calculated non-representational painting.’ While embracing the handmade mark, pattern, and indulgent color, I place strict limitations on the deployment of these means. The intended length, width, placement, and color of each brushstroke are carefully planned. As each painting develops, very limited allowance is possible for improvisation, experimentation, or revisions. The act of painting is the literal subject of the resulting image, and the making of each painting becomes itself the metaphor for the viewer's consideration. The work examines the act of imposing order, and the role played by this impulse in constructing meaning. In my mind, the act of painting is a political exercise: Although it is a private act, it yields an object intended for public examination.

“My work extends a dialog familiar in the work of Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Bridget Riley, Gene Davis, and others. As in these precursors, a palpable undercurrent of optimism threatens to reduce the work to a merely sentimental exercise, but that is not far from the point. In Reinhardt's words ‘someday the monotonous and ugly spaces you live and work in will be organized... as intelligently and as beautifully as the spaces have been in some paintings. A painting of quality is a challenge to disorder and insensitivity everywhere.’ *

New York, 26 September 2012

* Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Space, editorial cartoon published in PM, April 28, 1946.