EDUCATION
Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts - Master Classes, Richard Diebenkorn, Garner Tullis
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, University of Denver,
University of Iowa, Bennett College, Syracuse University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013-2017
Commissions, direct purchases with corporate art consultants
Site Santa Fe, “Site Unseen”, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Encaustic Group Show, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2011
“Third Anniversary Show”, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2010
“Anniversary Group Show”, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
Site Santa Fe, “Site Unseen” Santa Fe, NM
2009
“225º F: Encaustic Encounters”, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
“Anniversary Group Show”, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2008
“Grand Opening Exhibition”, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
“Trans+Lucent”, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
Site Santa Fe, “Site Unseen”, Santa Fe, NM
What can I say - shift happens. Even if I start a painting with an idea in mind, I try to put it on idle and let it evolve by discovery rather than any pre-conceived narrative. Over decades, I seem to have embedded notions of ephemerality, motion and the constant of change in my work. I’m not sure if I’m trying to understand mutability, nail it down or accept it, but it is a primal state of life, and so very beautiful.
What you see, feel and think depends on just how you approach everything, including art. In looking at a painting, no part exists in isolation but alters in relationship to what it is next to, where it is viewed from, what the quality of light is and every experience you bring along. Recently I’ve been using reflective mica powder and interference pigments on a black ground to create a dynamic space where what you see shifts as you change your viewing angle so that there isn’t one fixed reality. Rather than taking a quick glance and thinking you’ve got it, giving it another look from a different perspective can expand depth, richness of meaning and impact. One of the best things art can do is open you up to curiosity and suspension of judgment, and make you take another, deeper look at the world around you.