Geoscapes

These paintings are rooted in my experience of the Upstate New York landscape and the Adirondack Mountains. Rather than depicting the land directly, I reduce it into geometric structures that suggest peaks, ridgelines and changing light. The fragmented planes become a visual language for the way memory and perception reconstruct the landscape over time.

In these works, color functions as both structure and emotion. Saturated blues, greens, violets, and oranges create tension between natural observation and abstraction, while solid backgrounds evoke the expansive light and atmosphere of open sky. Thin linear frameworks hover around the forms like traces of mapping systems, and topographical studies