I am interested in the intensely emotional experience of color, as well as the iconography of housing and emotional tenor of “home”. I name these paintings in a way that evokes the way contemporary housing developers name their newly plowed and constructed neighborhoods. Whereas they often tap into aspirational and/or nostalgic consumer culture, I name them with a nod to my own aspirations and desires, poetic proclivities.

There is a critique embedded in the way that I consider these names and designs. But in these gridded and patterned (the grids have become circles lately) subdivisions named in a way that parodies American consumer culture, I allow the kind of organic growth, flora and fauna and hallmarks of childhood, that will happen anywhere families are planted. There is the banal, the evil, and the beautiful: miraculous blooming of life to imagine and draw from in these paintings.

The general schema of these paintings offers a space in which to consider such things as neighborhoods, communities, democracy, and unity, finding a color field that casts a story specific to each one, arrived at by an improvisational painting process that engages at turns memory, desire, and impulse.