My work is deeply rooted in a love of form, concept, and constant experiments. It is influenced by –music and literature, art history and philosophy.  I have lived across nine cities and five countries without a singular and stable base, the rhizomatic and fragmented images that proliferate across my practice resonate with that diasporic experience. The subjects I select connect to places and moments in my life.

I have completed large public art commissions and multiple unique travel and process journals, but painting is the focus of my practice.  I work in series, technically elaborate oils on wood. Works are organized in sequences of -paintings, drawings, journals- built around codes of maps, letters, and numbers, like chapters in a novel, this system is the style. Drawings in ink, charcoal and watercolors are an important component.

My work is a balancing act between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the Northern and Southern cultures, expressing contrasting lived experiences, displacement and fragmentation. Since the eighties, I have completed multiple modular paintings with changing installations and user participation, giving painting a life beyond the studio.

In the past ten years, I have developed an abstract vocabulary combining rigid geometrical shapes and free, gestural, strong calligraphic marks. Some works like the Encounter series, suggest collisions between a brushstroke and a grid, conflicts and clashes expressive of struggles in life and art.

The natural world represented in symbolic and metaphoric associations, the four elements and cardinal points, are a constant source of inspiration. In the Patagonia series 2014 an alphabet of abstract gestures emerged, patterns and rhythms indicative of islands, water currents and organisms in motion, with them, I evidence essential forces and forms in nature from the microscopic to the macroscopic. These forms are also found in the recent Constellation series. The 2019 acrylic and chalk paintings Tarnished Nature – Erasable Art, pointed to ecological problems of the Hudson River, the ecological issues represented were erased and redrawn by the public.

The emphasis of my work is on transformation and chance, prioritizing quality of form and technique. In my work, I want the viewer to experience refuge and self-reflection, and a certain harmony which I see as related to beauty, all very much needed in today’s world.