LEE Series

2020

“Lee” became a series after receiving the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, which opened up time to explore themes and techniques in my work on a more profound scale. That, in turn, opened up new formats and ways of understanding who I am as an artist.

There’s always an element of building upon what came before in my practice, and from the precious time I was granted through this honor, I was able to become even more intimately acquainted with the ways of canvas and how it moves, reacts, and transforms through the act of sewing.

But the series wasn’t just a moment of appreciation for the perpetually restless painter, Lee Krasner, an endless beacon of reinvention. Lee is also taken after the Irish meaning for the side of a hill that provides shelter from the winds. A name of protection. The parallels are obvious. But the works each emerged as their own landscapes, too: the Grand Canyon of Blackrock, the rolling bluffs of Ferguson, the inlet of Shaw’s Cove. All places in nature offering shelter from itself—a space for peace.