Abstract
The American home is a rich source of visual imagery and offers a critique of American domestic life. My paintings are about our domestic spaces, which are often over-furnished with non-essential products that are piled high and tucked away into corners and cabinets. Just as our objects serve as a representation of consumer excess, a home's organization can be the reflection of the function or dysfunction of the family.These orchestrated chaotic systems of domestic order (or disorder) act as the focal point of my work. I search in the congestion and migration of the material objects in my home to find a form of visual meaning. A distillation of time is compounded in my tightly composed, brightly colored, and lushly painted domestic interiors. I investigate the objects in my home because they remind me of my family and their presence. My home life is an ever-changing whirlwind of activity and visual stimulation; this series of paintings, which I call Interrupted Configurations, is my attempt to bring into focus and calm the never-ending storm before me.