Beachairs
The Beachair Series unfolds like sketchbook entries—a search for wide-open space, something impossible to grasp or hold. Disparate elements are shaped by curiosity: how colors behave with one another, how independent swishes of paint assert themselves, and why a particular shape insists on being there at all. Geometric forms drift in and out of relation with ambiguous marks and shifting surfaces, sometimes connecting, sometimes not. Dissonant elements coexist, creating a visual language that remains unresolved.
The Beachair provides a recognizable point of departure, yet the paintings are ultimately about abstraction. The tension between familiarity and invention allows recognizable imagery and the concerns of painting to occupy the same space.
The elongated 12 × 48-inch diptych format extends the work beyond the canvas itself. Its unusual proportions encourage an active relationship with the wall and surrounding space, allowing the paintings to function less as contained objects than as fragments that continue into the viewer's environment.
