ARTIST STATEMENT
I work with a constantly changing assortment of mediums, which I
combine and recombine as I pursue my vision. I am currently working
as a printmaker, using gelatin plate print techniques. My work ranges
from the abstract to the representational and has often been satirical
and socially critical. I have used sculpture, installations, painting,
drawing, digital and photographic images, performance and printmaking
to express my ideas.
Most recently, I have been obsessed with the luminous
color and abstract layered imagery which I have developed using gelatin
plate printmaking. I have been fascinated with this process and its
ability to create images using found objects and plant materials with
incredible detail and accuracy, thereby creating a tension between
manufactured and organic forms. This tension has been a major element
in my work for years.
I have a great love of improvisation regarding
techniques, processes and tools. After working as a production jeweler,
I translated my knowledge of metal into sculpture and architectural
metalwork. My experience as a theatrical set painter led quite naturally
to installations that combine painting, drawing and sculpture. Making
monoprints however, has provided me with a freedom of improvisation
on the level of stream of consciousness writing or jazz. It is such
an exciting time to be involved in printmaking! Developments in technology
and industry, in the hands of artists have created innovative processes
and an open, freewheeling atmosphere where whatever works is good and
is often accessible, low tech and non-toxic as well.
Bio
MFA Vermont College of Fine Arts Montpelier, VT
Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture University of California Berkeley
Active Massachusetts
Licensed Teacher Visual Arts K – 12
Selected Exhibits
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
MEMORIAL TO THE
NATURAL WORLD, Sculpture Installation Lindhurst Gallery, USC School
of Architecture Los Angeles, CA 2000
MESSAGE FROM PLANET X, Sculpture
Installation Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA 1999
LIFE CYCLE,
Sculpture Installation, The Chocolate Church Gallery, Bath, ME. 1998
SELECTED
COLLABORATIONS & GROUP SHOWS
PRINTS & OTHER WORKS
from TUDOR ST. ETCHING STUDIO The Gallery at the Piano Factory, Boston,
MA 2010
FACULTY SHOW, Gelatin Monoprints Arlington Center for the Arts
2009
BOSTON BIENNIAL PROJECT, Monoprint Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston
2009
WAR AND PEACE, Monoprint LynnArts, Lynn MA 2009
LOGAN AIRPORT:
CAMBRIDGE OPEN STUDIOS INVITATIONAL Monoprint & Collage Boston,
MA 2009
MONOPRINT GUILD OF NEW ENGLAND MEMBERS, Monoprints Plymouth
Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA 2009
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES: THE UNIQUE
PRINT Monoprint LynnArts, Inc. Lynn, MA 2009
WOMEN IN PRINT Monoprints
Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston, MA 2009
IMPRESSIONS
PRINTMAKING Monoprints New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester,
NH 2009
12 X 12 HOLIDAY SHOW, Monoprint Bromfield Gallery, Boston,
MA 2008
PIANO FACTORY MEMBERS SHOW, Monoprints, Piano Factory Gallery, Boston,
MA 2008
VARIOUS VIEWS OF NATURE, Sculptures, invitational The Caldbeck
Gallery, Rockland, ME 2007
VENICE PRINTMAKING Monoprints residency,
Venice, Italy 2006
[e]VENT: A DRAWING PROJECT IN RESPONSE TO THE PATRIOT
ACT Drawing Gallery 535, Boston, MA 2004
AT ISSUE: PRINTS AND SOCIAL
COMMENTARY Prints Wheaton College, Norton, MA 2004
NEW ENGLAND/NEW
TALENT, FITCHBURG BIENNIAL DOMESTIC INSECURITY Sculpture Installation,
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2004
