So as to find a method for making art in a time of uncertainty, I have chosen to use the grid as a substrate. Its format allows me to pursue a structured line of inquiry in order to develop new ways of making. The grid, as a symbol of modernity, has had many different contexts in art history. For me, it is a geometric gesture of visual language. I employ the grid as a bridge to transfer painting to another context. By using the grid, I seek to access what the Symbolists understood as “nuance.”

I combine the grid with manipulated photographic images in order to find new ways of painting. My grids, always composed of 1×1 in. squares and covering the entire paper or canvas, form the base for the painting. This base brings with it both structure and flexibility. It is both a tool and a reliquary.

Agnes Martin has had an influence on my understanding of the grid, because she fruitfully made use of its contradictions. In her works I recognize a sense of rigor and consequence, but also something invisible, something alluding to the irrational aspects of the mind. This oscillation is something I strive to achieve by using the grid to unearth new pictorial perspectives and contexts. (2020)