Grammatical Errors, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery 2014

Grammatical Errors is about trying to say something but saying it wrong. Grammar allows others to understand what it is you want to convey, but what if there is no grammar for what you want to convey, what if there are no words specific enough or way to say something? Can you assign old words new meanings in hopes of a higher clarity? But how can that be understood? This work reassigns materials as a way to change their grammar or read by the viewer.

I used forms and materials that are “of the house” to connect to a system that is known and felt and that has a history with the viewer. Materials are shifted to have different roles, they are out of order and made to be weakened or exposed. This reassignment destabilizes the functionality of the forms but speaks to changing possibilities of matter. Perhaps in this exposed vulnerable state, meanings can be challenged and changed.

All works are constructed like a painting with a frame, a stretched surface and a relationship to color and materiality of paint.