Extremophiles

Extremophiles is a group of RW paintings shown at Miami Pulse with LaMontagne Gallery in 2014 that—responding to the detachment of successive parts of the RW process into tropes of abstract expressionism in the Vitavulnus (2012) project—introduced the mark as autonomous representational elements: sperm- or bacteria-like figures arranged by the random walk method to form swarms, captured in frenetic motion.

The organic shape of the mark also drew from the biological-typological convention adopted in Vitavulnus, which suggested individual paintings as autonomous living agents bearing a tenuous relationship to artistic control.  Here that relationship is transferred inside the window of the work, as the accumulated marks form tenuously collective clouds of activity, suggesting its coming-together or drifting-apart in the action of accumulation.