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International experience has provided me with a diverse background in art, culture and unique perspectives that inform my work. Living and working abroad provided a fresh perspective on my own values and priorities and shaped a broader, more nuanced worldview.
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Mixed media art is an ideal way to express complex ideas and emotions, allowing for a rich, layered experience in my artwork. Themes such as nature, politics and otherworldliness cross over and resonate with each other, in spite of their supposed contradictions. I look for unusual combinations of materials and images to make meaning, or a momentary transposition of images, such as the stark shadow of a sapling cast on the trunk of a mighty Oak. There – is wonder. While discovering connections among materials, ideas and images, it is the things that don’t belong together that sometimes make the most sense.
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“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
- 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
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AWARDS & GRANTS
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation GrantArtist in Residency
- Cummington - Community of the ArtsArtist in Residency
- James Madison University, Arboretum
- 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
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EDUCATION
BFA University of Kansas
MFA University of Southern California