The drips of paint and  spray- paint patterns became a structure for the images to break through, and to be a part of.  I use tag sale items and unwanted household kitchen objects to make patterns. Growing up I loved artists who used assemblage  as their way of creating.  As an adult, I feel the days of  Rauschenberg are over.  I want to make a “whole” painting, not a composition  of parts.

PATTERN BUILDS STRUCTURE and repeating pattern has power. The dots are a reference to Lichtenstein but not specificity for that, is to celebrate the difference between the automatic marks and the gestural brush work. 

Lately I’ve been thinking of how line and color can be two separate things. I’ve always thought color informs shape. But now I see it as a totally different way of expression;  an element separate from line.  A  gestural approach with my drawing, but  an analytical  mark with painting Line work, or in my case the drips are the painting aspect, and color can introduce pattern another plane of reality a schism in the dynamic of painting.