The informing spirit and tradition of Asian multi-paneled screen and scroll landscape paintings have had an ongoing influence in my painting. The power of the earth and the way it is interpreted through time energize my work. Drawing from the scrolling and folded panels of the Asian landscape form, my paintings seek to explore the outer boundaries of the landscape, to test the edges at the round earth's imagined corners.

The interior landscape of my paintings concern the transcendent aspects of experience. The paintings seek points of energy between light and dark, at the outer edge visual experience. This edge in my work is described by New York Times critic William Zimmer as the point where the painting "dances between the realistic details and abstraction.

The paintings often use expanded length, point of view, or monumental size to explore the edges and boundaries of light and time. Pushing the work beyond the natural edge while utilizing the tradition of landscape, each painting is a search for new spheres of experience.

Angel |Campay |Claborn | Draper |Hessam | Mabe
|Nemtoi |Penrod |Pettegrew | Stanford |Walker

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