UNTITLED 2007

The 2007 body of work started when I moved to East Harlem on New Year’s Eve.  I knew nothing about the neighborhood other than it provided me with a short commute to my job at the Guggenheim Museum.  It was a big change in my life and in my practice. I had brand new studio with more space than I ever had, and the freedom to work in seclusion. It is no coincidence the early paintings in this series relate to some of my signature moments in earlier years. There was a big shift in my practice to make my painting and my life enmeshed more than ever. I worked on multiple canvases at all times, searching, keeping exploration as open as possible. I learned to value the evolution of process over a specific technique.