Artist Statement

Since I was a child I have been doing portraits. My work portrays what I see in the faces and experiences of specific people around me. Each portrait represents a personal relationship between the artist and subject. Life is temporary and each human face is so unique. Time changes them until they are gone, but the portrait remains timeless. I have always been fascinated with the observation of life expressed through art. The personalities of people beyond the gesture of the human form. Their visage is documented by my impression of them through sculpture.

As a Figurative sculptor working in clay, I wanted to show more of the internal struggles behind the still face of a figure. Human emotion is a subject often hidden under our skin and behind our eyes. This desire to reveal this internal landscape has led me to pursue the transparency of glass. A glass figure conveys the fragility of life and the luminous presence of a living being by trapping light refracted through the body.

My material choices are urban and mirror our modern metropolis. They have expanded to include not only glass but concrete, aluminum, steel, and bronze; ever-evolving to comment and connect with the complex human condition.

My work transitions from a deep focus on figure study to interpreting the body as a transparent vessel, carrying  memories and describing an emotional state through color and light. The exaltation of beauty is damaged through the process of translating the figure into glass. The patterns of fast fashion and  textures of cheap fabrics are made precious when transformed into other mediums. The sculpture becomes a time capsule grounding the figure in our time and place, appearing as a weathered relic of our consumptive age.