Artist Statement:
Artist's Statement
I connect to and process my world by creating my art. My work consists of two overlapping bodies, one strictly abstract, and one in which I introduce imagery and abstract it and the landscape that it exists in. As an intuitive painter, I bring forth completely non representational pieces when I can reach into the deep corners of myself and find what is there. I use imagery as departure points for work when my world has piled up and blocked the conversations from those recesses where my intuition takes full control and I can’t readily reach what is stored there. Both forms lead me to resolution of what I am making sense of. Both connect bits and pieces of experience and life and allow me to reflect. I nurture both processes as they serve as tools to tenaciously create and make sense of life as it unfolds.
Education:
BA Studio Art, University of Mary Washington
Awards & Distinctions:
Grants and Awards
2015 In the Light National Exhibit: Juried by BJ Kocen
and Jennifer Glave, Fredericksburg Center for the
Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA Second Place
2015 June 2015 Regional Exhibit: Juried by Joseph Di Bella
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts,
Fredericksburg, VA Second Place
2015 Uniquely Fredericksburg:Central Rappahannock
Regional Library, Juried by JeanAnn Dabb
Fredericksburg, VA First Place Mixed Media
2013 Celebrate Color and Form : National Exhibit, Juried
by Margery E. Goldberg, Fredericksburg Center for
The Creative Arts, Fredericksburg,
VA Honorable Mention
2013 June 2013 Regional Exhibit : Juried by Jon McMillan,
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts,
Fredericksburg, VA First Place
2010 Department Award Textile Design Annual University
Of Mary Washington Juried Show, duPont Gallery,
Fredericksburg, VA
2010 Honorable Mention Painting Departmental Award
Annual University Of Mary Washington Juried Show,
duPont Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2010 Awarded Virginia Military Association Military Spouse
Scholarship
2010 Nominated and awarded by Art and
Art History Department the Thea K.
Viadaro ’98 Scholarship
2009 Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Mary
Washington
2009 Nominated and awarded by Art and
Art History Department the Polly Updegraff Champ
‘61 Scholarship
Professional/Teaching Experience:
2011-Artist in Residency Arts Habitat Studio Seaside, Seaside, CA
2011- Artists Equity Board of Directors
Exhibitions:
2011- 2011 Summer Juried Show Arts on Main: Ventura, CA
2011- Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature: Bedford
Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2010- Annual University Of Mary Washington Juried Show:duPont Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2010- Yes Loitering:duPont Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2010- Exhibiting at The Griffin -The Griffin Bookstore, Fredericksburg, VA
2010- Round Two: The Underground Fredericksburg, VA
2009- Juried Show: Discarded Potential:an exhibition in trash-art Liberty Town Arts Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2009- Unravelled: A Small PaintingExhibiiton, Visitors Center, Fredericksburg, VA
2009- Summer of Youth: Digital Art Visitors Center, Fredericksburg, VA
2009- Going up at the Underground:The Underground,
Fredericksburg, VA
Artistic Influences:
Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman
Artist Tags:
abstract, modern, contemporary, lyrical, colorist
