“Like writing, my art is contextual and front-facing. It’s inspired by pictogrammatic signage and the West Coast hard-edge movement. I prefer to use pigments straight from the tube and pair colors that sit together well, but with a little friction. I can see a connection to the palettes of Lorser Feitelson and Susan Kiefer, Alex Katz and Stuart Davis, John Wesley, and Bridget Riley (minus the op). I’m interested in the kind of messaging that is generated when information is held back, and I like it when a painting feels both spontaneous and deliberate and is coded in a nonintrusive way, like a look from across the room that doesn’t stop the conversation.”