Painting is swinging a sledgehammer while walking a tightrope. I’m going for looseness and fluidity while navigating nuanced layers and brushstrokes. The paintings evoke a presence - the observer / painter coming upon a pool of water in a garden or forest, in a state of suspension, as if sleepwalking. These pools regard water as an element to get lost in. Water absorbs and reflects, while revealing glimpses, and hiding multitudes. In the paintings there are shadows and reflections, colors of sky and sunset, and in most, an edge - a hint of containment. As I work the paintings, the shapes and layers shift, until surface and shadow still, and the energy knocks against the edges. I’m interested in the pool as a subjective inner space, revealing a transient state of mind and heart, arrived at only through painting.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 SUSPEND, Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity, Florence , MA
2022 HOLIDAY, LabSpace, Hillsdale NY
2019 LAYERS, Red Light Gallery, Northampton MA
2017 WORKS, Readywipe Gallery, Holyoke, MA
2015 ELEMENT POOL, Hampden Studio Gallery,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2014 CRYSTALLINE, Oresman Gallery,
Smith College, Northampton, MA
2013 SLOW LIGHT, Thornes, Northampton, MA
2012 MIND and MATTER, Paper City Gallery, Holyoke, MA
NATURE / NATURANS, Primo Piano Gallery, Lecce, Italy
2009 PRESENT TENSE, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
OUT of SIGHT, Wunderarts, Amherst, MA
2004 PAINTINGS, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA
2002 EXCHANGE, Lowe Gallery, Hudson Guild, NYC1999FIVE and TEN,
Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
MFA, Indiana University 1991
Skowhegan 1991
BS, Skidmore College 1986