My studio practice is concerned with the relationship between Modernist architecture and flat, formal image of that space, which I create using etching. Modernist architecture, and the Modern art museum in particular, are spaces in which this relationship is the closest, as the walls of a “white box” gallery create effects of light and shadow that echo the forms of Modernist abstract painting. The experience of being in a Modern art gallery is simultaneously alienating and alluring; I am physically constrained by the stark geometry of the space, but drawn to the same stark geometry of abstract paintings, especially in works by Morandi, Mondrian. Kandinsky, Kelly or Diebenkorn (and on and on). My ambivalent feelings about the museum experience come across in my formal choices, particularly through the palette of muted colors that are close in saturation and hue. Thus, my work lies between representation and Modernist abstraction, heightening the tension between the spatial and the visual that is inherent in the gallery experience.