I hope that my art creates a bridge to you, the viewer. Using a language outside of words, my art collaborates with what you see and feel, and we create something new together. Informally introduced by a painting, we have found each other in a moment of shared experience. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my compositions, I use an organic, abstract language of shapes and marks in vibrant colors. In the subject matter of my work, I don’t want to paint the thing itself. I’m trying to capture the context it exists within; the light and movement and its emotional presence in that moment.

I primarily use acrylics on canvas or wood panels but veer into mixed media territory by including spray paint, charcoal, oil pastels, stencils, and collage. My process is to intuitively create a quick starting point on a canvas with gestural marks. Then, take turns adding more thoughtfully painted shapes and marks or, subtracting content by sanding or scraping away to reveal areas in a previous layer. Each layer influences the next. I repeat this process until I reach a composition that calls the viewer to explore it again and again.

My intention is to create art that reveals my hand in its making. I lean toward the imperfection created by the skip in a line, a blob of paint or, the texture of a brushstroke from a layer underneath demanding to be seen. I enjoy using raucous color combinations in the hope of discovering the vibrations that Rothko found. I’m trying to stop earlier in my painting process to find the rawest version of the strongest composition, in the manner of Franz Kline. I fear producing work that is too much like what I’ve already done. And even though I find so much joy in the abstract, as I think about the scope of Diebenkorn’s work, I don’t want to deny representational subject matter if that is what the painting demands.

 

 

Solo Shows:

  • 2017 Vino Vinyl, Missouri City, TX

Group Exhibitions:

  • 2020 Sacred Spaces, The Vineyard Church, Pearland, TX

  • 2016 Art Jubilee, Grand Central Station, Seabrook, TX

Juried Exhibitions:

  • 2023 Expansion: Juried Exhibit by Women in Visual and Literary Arts (WIVLA), Houston, TX

  • 2023 Archway Gallery 15th Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX

  • 2022 Imperial Art Alliance, Fall LSAG Judged Art Show, Sugar Land, TX

Art Festivals:

  • 2023 Sugar Land Art Festival (SLAF), Sugar Land, TX 

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Education & Awards:

  • Best of Show, Imperial Art Alliance, Fall LSAG Judged Art Show, Sugar Land, TX 2022

  • Creative Visionary Program (CVP), The Art2Life Academy 2020

  • Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 1986-88