correspondences

april 14-18,2025

CalArts MFA thesis show

Correspondences, was created primarily on 12” x 16” canvases, a huggable size, using a consistent gridded composition interrupted by two arcs. The composition reads partially as a self-referential image, yet it resists clarity. It at once is suggestive of a body, but never fully revealing one; a space where the figure and ground compete for attention. This composition draws from the works and writings of Forrest Bess and Agnes Martin, whose practices embody a formalism that is both intimate and abstract, deeply connected to the body. In Correspondences, I held a conversation with these artists in the ether—interpreting and misunderstanding, hiding and revealing a dialogue and questioning of what it might mean to be a body.