About

My work is interdisciplinary and moves between the formats of performance, happenings, painting and installation. Over the last year, I’ve been concentrating on the starting point of an artwork. In returning to the beginning, I’ve cultivated a more direct and improvisational relationship with materials like sound, paint and movement, focusing on the relationship itself: the mark made with paint, the contact of the foot on the floor, the shape of the body in a given site, the reverberation of a touch to create sound. In these interactions is an opening, a charged space, the emergence of inchoate forms. Working in this way I’ve produced site-specific actions outside, a prototype for an immersive, color field performance, and abstract paintings.

Before returning to California in the Spring of 2016, I lived in New York working as Director of archives and exhibitions for Marina Abramović.  During this time, I was making large scale performances and happenings that began with research and developed through unpredictable collaborations with strangers I met in the course of my research. These projects were experiments in collaboration as a medium, but also, they were an attempt to create cohesive aesthetic experiences for participants, out of disjunctive elements and the collision of genres or creative traditions.