“I see imagery as musical—choreographed to show movement.  I choose vibrant colors and use them in combinations that could be considered discordant. In so doing, I hope to jar the viewer out of a conventional manner of looking at color. 

When I work within a painted collage format I use a mix of materials, such as aluminum foil and gold, silver and bronze leaf over iridescent and translucent acrylics. My intention is to project an image holding and unfolding itself together in fragments without a clear resolution.

With my pastel series, I employ simple geometric shapes that  become part of more intricate patterns that should draw the eye in different ways, thus making their own and unique claim for attention.

My work has evolved into an expressive, pure abstraction as I’ve begun  to open up and lose control of the composed parts. These paintings  are about freeing myself and creating work that’s like a jazz composi tion—without a simplistic theme or introductory passage. They get into  the layering and weaving of surface patterns until they form a unified  whole.” 

— JG