My recent white-on-white paintings are based on architectural facades and the connection between exterior appearances and interior space. I am attracted to the symbiotic relationship between this two-dimensional “face,” the three-dimensional space it covers, and how one informs the other. I am using the façade as a metaphor while building pictures that play with questions of appearance and identity—mirror image versus dimensionality of the body, for example, and persona vs. personality.

In this series there are references to the walls of the white cube, modernist painting concerns, (surface, monochrome, horizontality, masculinity), and spatial disjunctions. These paintings also refer to a discussion of the relationship between beauty, abjection and femininity, and, the “problem with painting”— is it dead? still breathing? somewhere in between, like a zombie?—the debate over which Douglas Fogle’s catalog essay for “Painting at the Edge of the World” makes clear, is still raging in the art world.