Throughout my career as an artist, I have constructed three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional textural surfaces in order to paint on and into them. These objects include lamps, curtains, chairs as well as completely non-objective forms.

More recently, I have become interested in Fashion and Glamour as a source of inspiration for drawings and paintings. The concerns of high fashion: how color defines shape and form, the ways in which textures are used in connection/conflict with color, and the innovative ways fabric is sewn and applied to forms, coincide with the concerns I have in painting. Fashion design influences my work because it is visually exciting, dynamic, experimental, and continually pushes the boundaries of taste and style.

The Wall Dresses are three-dimensional paintings with internal light sources. In creating these pieces, I have engaged fashion issues and ideas concerning movement, color as it defines form, illumination, and the use of various fabrics and textures. The internal light sources serve to describe shape, planes, and texture. The light plays with and helps to define color, patterns, layering, and transparency. The resulting shadows cast on the walls, floor, and ceiling are integral elements that dramatize the work.