Rendering movement through two-dimensional media creates a commentary about the nature of abstraction. The representation of a moving figural subject comments on the inevitable abstraction of all renditions of the figure because all things are in endless transition. My prints focus on abstracting elements of natural movements within the human figure to capture those transitions.
Capturing figural dynamism through printmaking processes contrasts media with subject. This juxtaposition is due to the intentional stability of the wood or linoleum block, the fleeting nature of clarity, and the illusion of stagnation. I work with a bold and graphic style of gestural mark-making in order to emphasize the intentionally two-dimensional nature of the work and exaggerate the figural proportions and scale to suggest the state of flux in which they exist. Many of my prints not only emphasize the two-dimensional plane, but evoke a three-dimensional plane or “fourth wall” when the subjects appear to interact with and confront the audience. In this way there forms a voyeuristic relationship between viewer and subject.
