Page 29 - Allisons Magazine Issue #91

Deeper Than Thought Where There Is Always More

college, where we often shared semantic
discussions on abstract art with my Although I still loved design, I had
professors. After college, during an missed the tactile experience of making
art study program in Italy, I was art. I wanted content and meaning in
exposed to painters who encouraged my work, which is why I made
an experimental approach to painting. the switch.
I quickly became attracted to what felt
like a nonconformist way of making art. Has your career transition been a
It opened up so many possibilities for smooth one?
self-expression. It has been a work in progress. $ere
is no blueprint for a career in art, and
My very !rst in"uences included Joan I’ve had to !gure it out day by day. $is
Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Richard lack of predictability also keeps things
Diebenkorn. I became attracted to their exciting and open, both in my work and
subjective experiences. in my career.

Raw Land From your experience, what are What is your process for creating a The Promise of Something
the pros and cons of being an art piece of art? How long does it take?
director versus a full-time artist? What does the process itself mean
terms of music, food, literature, and What made you decide to make to you? work. I have to be in a place of clarity
architecture. Art was my entry point the switch? I work on multiple paintings at a time, and openness so that the creative process
into all of this. $is variety also enriched Art and design serve di#erent usually !ve to eight pieces. I always comes through. It’s during this space
my perceptions—and, like many artists, functions. As an art director, you're start with a speci!c color palette in that I welcome the accidental, the
everything I experience !nds its way communicating a practical and mind. $is is pretty much the only part uncertainty, and the mess. $en I shift
into my art. commercial message. As an artist, you’re that’s preplanned. Everything else is gears and try to make sense of what’s
utilizing the creative expression. It’s less process based; I’m always looking at and in front of me—adding, subtracting,
What or who drew you to about economics and more about this responding to the marks as I go along. and adjusting. It’s where the integration
abstraction? Which abstract artists rich and creative thinking that brings happens. It’s a very intuitive and
are your role models? meaning and connections between the I paint in three- to four-hour intervals, personal process.
My love for abstraction started in viewer and the artwork. when I get centered and focus on the

26 | AMERICAN LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE americanlifestylemag.com | 27