In early 2021, I completed a site-specific installation for Atlantic Aviation Airport in Philadelphia, as well as other public commissions in Philadelphia, and Doha. In the Spring, I began experimenting with new materials and techniques, such as house paint, resin, squeegees and reductive solvents. While looking at the work of Gerhard Richter and Pat Steir, who have been important contributors to the legacy of pulling and pouring paint, I began to develop this body of work which emerged from the urban landscape of Philadelphia. Drawing from the city’s layered facades as inspiration, I explored ideas of urban tensions which are evident through these surfaces’ embedded histories. By placing these contradictory materials and gestures together, I am honoring the myriad motives behind the mark making I observe in the skin of my home town’s urban landscape. Bringing in the silver, with its luminescence and occasional reflective marks, I have used this process as a way of coming to terms with my own thread which runs through this fabric of urban chaos. For more information on these works, please inquire through the contact page or with Massey Klein Gallery.
