Remodeling

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Remodeling (2024) is a reflection on change — not cosmetic, but structural. This 72 x 48 inch oil painting from the Black and White Collection explores interior reconstruction through dense texture, bold gesture, and the raw grammar of black, white, and everything in between.

The surface is layered and scraped, as if past decisions are being reconsidered mid-stroke. Broad swaths of ivory are cut by black geometric shapes that feel architectural — walls shifting, windows redefined, plans half-erased. Streaks of charcoal gray and hints of exposed canvas suggest both demolition and rebirth.

I painted Remodeling in parallel with changes in my own space — rearranging not just furniture but habits, intentions, expectations. The canvas echoed the mess and clarity that come with reevaluation. What began as a composition broke down, then rebuilt itself through touch and intuition.

This work resonates with Pierre Soulages’ noir explorations and Sean Scully’s structural paintings, though mine is more about fluidity within the frame — about letting plans fail beautifully.

Remodeling doesn’t offer a final form. It holds the energy of becoming — of living through the undoing.