I am a contemporary artist based in Washington, DC, working in painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Many years spent in Europe, the Middle East and Asia have given me a broad perspective on art and culture.
Working in response to impressions taken from nature and social/political culture, I layer ideas and materials in open unexpected ways. I’m drawn to found object and to visual possibilities that might otherwise go unnoticed. By bringing unlikely elements into relation, I create work that carries emotional charge and humor–and that, at times, surprises even me.
I experience artmaking as a process of intimate, trial and error sense-making where things that don’t belong together ironically make sense.
“An artwork is a totem and a crossroad. If you explain you kill.” - Dubuffet
ARTIST STATEMENT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- Washington, DC – Frame of Mine Gallery, Capitol Hill, group
- Washington, DC – Politics and Prose Cafe, solo
- Washington, DC – River Road Unitarian Universalist, solo
- Harrisonburg, VA – Margaret Gheman Gallery, Eastern Mennonite University, solo
- Harrisonburg, VA – Smith House Gallery, Arts Council of the Valley, solo
- Harrisonburg, VA – Arts Council Members Exhibitions
- Harrisonburg, VA – Hess Financial, ‘First Friday’, solo
- Charlottesville, VA – UVA, Fralin Art Museum, ‘Tiny Free Gallery Exhibit’, group
- Bangkok, Thailand – Faculty Exhibition, Concordian International School Bangkok, Thailand
- Bangkok, Thailand – Neilson Art Gallery, solo
- Bangkok, Thailand – Yellow Canary Gallery, group
- Abu Dhabi, UAE – Alliance Francaise Gallery, solo
- Zurich Switzerland – International Women’s Club gallery, group
- Long Island, New York – ‘Gizmo’, sculptural commission, Long Island Children’s Museum
AWARDS & GRANTS
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
- Cummington Community of the Arts–Artist in Residency
- James Madison University, Arboretum–summer artist in residency
- Women’s Fund of Massachusetts – project development grant
- University of Southern California, Graduate School of Fine Arts – full merit scholarship
- University of Kansas, Amy Woller McClelland Art Scholarship
EDUCATION
BFA University of Kansas
MFA University of Southern California