ARTISTS STATEMENT
As a psychotherapist, artist and meditation practitioner, what is important to me is relationships.The relationship between one person and another, the darkness and the light, emptiness and fullness, motion and stillness, one color and another, elevation and depression, so that nothing is in and of itself, but is conversant with the other.
I am also interested in the small and humble, the used, reused, imperfect, handmade, the particular, human. I like to look at things very closely, repetitively, and feel a connection to what I observe. Observing and feeling become joined in the process.The shapes, the quality of light, the relationships of parts to one another, the “interbeing” of the entire process is my meditation. To have a more intimate relationship with the objects or people I am painting, to let that relationship as I paint inform my consciousness, is for me, the purpose of my work.
EDUCATION
DEGREES
MA Pacifica Graduate Institute
BA Northwestern University
STUDY
Art Institute of Chicago
Evanston Art Center
Omega Institute
ASOS
EXHIBITIONS
Evanston Art Center
Members Show 2003-present Award 2014
Contemporary 33
Face Off 2007 2008 Juried
Over Easy 2006 Solo
Noyes Cafe 2003 Group
PUBLICATIONS
The Not So Big House 2009
Contemporary 33 Faceoff 2008
Evanston Art Center Exhibition 2004