MAGICGROOVE

The first words I chose for myself, my mother told me, were the names of the colors in the Crayola box (the BIG box). That intersection of color with language/meaning/mark ignited me, and those elements continue to drive my work: Color, calling us with the force and moods of a lover. Language as text as line, connecting points, dividing space, describing dimensions. And gesture, the action of the body asserting meaning with a mark... Now at the other end of life, I find what matters is this: the aspiration, in all our awkwardness and misfortune, towards beauty, an emulation of that pitiless grace that enfolds us and of which we are made. I dream of making art that provides us with both solace and provocation, a recognition of the questioning heart and spirit of another... Roots: Those same child's eyes opened upon a postwar popular visual culture still influenced by the delicacy and joy of late Dufy and Matisse but energized by burgeoning Mid-century Modernism and Abstract..

Also known as: Magicgroove Studio

Primary location: Joshua Tree United States