In my current portfolio, 'AutoAbstraction,' I executed most of the paintings in a gesturally abstract, graffiti-like way. I approached others in a geometric, non-objective or minimalist style. My palettes were initially inspired by own olive complexion, then by my investigations into the Fitzpatrick Skin Type Scale or SPF chart, a Pantone SkinTone Booklet, various beauty product promotional color charts, and several paint brands premixed colors. The resulting works lend themselves to psychosexual and/or abstracted figurative interpretations. 

Philosophically I am positioned within feminist aesthetics, methodologically I work as an autotheorist, and technically I often begin a series with acrylics on gessoed canvases or linens that I sometimes complete in oils. For my own painting, to teach painting, and to teach ancient through contemporary art history and theory, I do a lot of looking, researching, and reading. This impacts my concept of a given series, and that sets the stage for what that series ends up looking like. My creative vision is indebted to my understanding of developments within 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a pre-feminist spiritualist painting genre. Within it, most inspiring to me are 'painterly abstraction', 'post-painterly abstraction', and 'new image' movements. 

My favorites painters include historical modern painters (i.e. Giotto, da Vinci, Gentileschi, Valasquez, Rembrandt, Bonheur, Manet, Cassatt, etc.), and I especially like the works of late modern and post-modern abstractionists Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), Hans Hoffman (1880-1966), Sonia Delaunay (1985-1979), Alma Thomas (1891-1978), Willem deKooning (1904-1997), Phillip Guston (1913-1980), Gene Davis (1920-1985), Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Cy Twombly (1928-2011), Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007), Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), Susan Rothenberg (1945-2020), Louise Fishman (1939-2021), Anselm Kiefer (1945- ), Sean Scully (1945- ), and Rita Ackerman (1968- ).