Multi-panel

When I moved into my new work space at the Sharpe-Walentas residency in Brooklyn, I found myself in a corner studio with seven windows, three facing South and and four facing East. 

I organically started to respond to this experience by beginning a couple of diptychs. From there I began to play with adding more canvases.

Having the separate panels caused me to compose differently, with rhythmic verticals and periodic events pacing the horizontal journey across the canvases in a way that I thought powerfully supported the dream-like dimension unfolding of the paintings.

I’ve also been looking at Chinese scroll paintings for many years and loved the way the long format always had the space to turn and roll and create ongoing shifts in point of view and it occurred to me that this was a way for me to work with that kind of complex space and still keep the painting open.

Working with multiple canvases allows me to make canvas decisions improvisationally, which is how I prefer to work already anyway.