Cognitive gridlocks
Mixed-media abstract art series, 2025
Gridlock is the throughline of everything made in 2025, the point where thought, emotion,
and movement become caught, cyclical, or resistant.
It's not one series' subject; it's the condition all of this year's work is responding to, each series approaching it from a different angle: deviation and imbalance, structural tension, memory under pressure, the shape data leaves behind.
Across canvas, paper, cardboard, and wood, layered paint, collage, and mark-making translate that shared pressure into form and spatial systems, differently in each body of work but never separately from it.
+ About the 2025 series
• Studio: Newburgh, NY
• 13 series: canvas, paper, cardboard, and wood
• Works are available for exhibition and acquisition — inquire for current availability
“This interplay between control and intuition mirrors the tension between structure and chaos in both cities and ourselves.”
Concept & theme
The pressure behind this year's work comes from a tension
I keep returning to in my practice: the fragmented nature
of contemporary life, and the friction between digital and physical identity.
Movement stalls not because energy runs out, but because too many competing systems are trying to move through the same space at once.
The geometric frameworks across 2025's work aren't decorative structures; they're an attempt to make that overload visible and specific, rather than naming it as 'stress' or 'anxiety' in the abstract.
Materials & process
Each painting is developed through an iterative
mixed-media process involving layered paint, collage,
and mark-making.
Forms are built, disrupted, and rebuilt over time, mirroring cycles of accumulation and release.
The surfaces retain evidence of revision, keeping the process itself visible and integral to the final work.
Studio & context
The Cognitive Gridlocks series was developed in the studio as part of an ongoing investigation into emotional mapping and geographic abstraction.
The works are intended for exhibition, acquisition, and institutional dialogue within contemporary abstract art contexts.
