GRAVITY is a series that considers the weight of the body and its relation to paint. Working through the figure, I use it as a site to test the material limits of oil, how it can hold, resist, or dissolve form.

The body is something I return to repeatedly. Through a varied palette and unstable compositions, I am interested in how paint can register psychological and emotional interior states without fully describing them.

This continues my engagement with The Explanatory Gap, the distance between physical matter and subjective experience.

GRAVITY will consist of 11 to 15 works, to be presented in a solo exhibition with Art Floor, Taiwan, 2026. Only a selection of works is shown here, with the full series to be presented for the first time in the exhibition.

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