Artist Statement

My paintings, drawings and prints involve placing one intuitively determined mark upon another to add up to an airy intricacy of light and space. The structure within each piece has coalesced out of my experience of nature and my experimentation with mark making.

My inspiration comes from the non-human world. There is a clarity of mind felt walking outside among trees and water, sensing the slant of light and breeze on one’s face. My work is about that feeling. I have painted representational landscapes in the past, but I have arrived conclusively in a world of pure abstraction. This is because that clarity of mind I seek to experience and communicate is beyond form. I am interested in creating spaces that feel like air and light and the way things fit together in the world, but open out on emptiness.

I have always loved the fundamental act of drawing--varying pressure, speed, wetness, or thickness to make a mark with a particular presence. It’s about touching and an awareness of my own physical presence. The ways marks pass through one another, or meet and separate, or parallel one another are endlessly compelling. It’s about, rhythm and infinite variation. Making decisions intuitively about the placement, form and color of marks I arrive at a complex pictorial order that reflects the natural world.

EDUCATION:

2001  MFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1997 : BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2003  Butters Gallery, Portland, OR (scheduled)
2002 Sitka Invitational, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
2002  Interpreting Landscape, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY, Juried by Sandra Carpenter
2001  Landscapes: Texture and Light, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick, MA
2001 MFA Thesis Show, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
2001 Annual Student Show, Copley Society, Boston, MA
2000 MFA Midway, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
1999  New Graduate Students, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
1998 Power Objects in the Here and Now, Maryland Artists Series, Government House, Annapolis, MD
1998 IASG in New Delhi, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
1997 7th Street International, II, Project Space, Washington, DC
1997 International Artists Support Group Members Exhibition, Gatehouse Gallery, Mt. Vernon College, Washington DC
1997 Art and Healing, Mount Royal Health Center, Baltimore MD
1997 Senior Exhibition, Myerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art
1996  Student Space Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art
1996 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute, juried by Claudia Amory and William Steinmetz
1995 Emerging artists Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis, MD Juried by Pat Creswell

RESIDENCIES:

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
Artist-in-Residence, Winter/Spring 2002