Statement

Decorator fabrics are mass-produced with the understanding that they will go out of style. Beginning a painting with this material as the foundation of the work, I am taking “disposable art” and creating an image intended to be archival, questioning the assumption that high art is somehow timeless, while exposing the dilemma of fine art as commodity in a current market driven art world.

Former pillowcases, curtains, and tablecloths become the starting point. I find them discarded on crowded shelves in secondhand stores, their mismatched patterns forced to be together. In each painting the challenge is to integrate these disparate graphic designs into a unified whole, the final image a balance of individual voices the sum of which is greater than its parts.