Albers/Progenitors (selected)
In these digital paintings (2013-16), I honor two influences, Josef Albers and my parents. In Interaction of Color, Albers writes:
"Practical exercises demonstrate through color deception (illusion) the relativity and instability of color. And experience teaches that in visual perception there is a discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing."
These studies “queer” my parents by incorporating homosocial photos of them into my reworkings of Albers’ iconic format for conjuring and displaying the relativity of color. What counts here are not so-called facts about identity, but the experiences of vision, mutability, and possibility that these color environments and these photographs allow.