My work is about connection and communication. I construct my art from surfaces on which I’ve painted, marked, or drawn. I then cut out or “harvest” elements that seem most alive, that have an emotional honesty to them. These are the raw materials from which I build collages and assemble paintings. I look for unexpected relationships and poetic through lines. The marks and elements are players, in dialogue with one another.
I often use found paper from accounting ledgers, antique encyclopedias, flash cards, or index cards. I’m drawn to these sources for the authority or structure they imply, which I push against. My work offers instead an internal way to understand what is known, and to reflect on being present and embodied.
Text and letterforms interest me. My goal is to abstract them, to have their form disintegrate into merely a shape, divorced from it’s prior life. Elements of communication are reduced to rubble, and gestural marks stand in for words, existing below the surface of complete comprehension, like hearing a muttered phrase but unable to decipher its meaning, or misinterpreting the intent.
2024
Strictly Abstract (online exhibit)
Juror: Anthony Meier
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA
Monochrome Explored (online exhibit)
Juror: Tess Thackara
Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Women Artists Making Their Mark (online
exhibit)
Jurors: Donna Seager & Suzanne Gray
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts , Mill Valley,
CA
Mixing it Up with Mixed Media
Juror: Susan Press
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Seen & Imagined
Juror: Jeremy Morgan
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
Winter Invitational Show
Invited by Michael Friedland & Susan
Press
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Objects of Agency (online exhibit)
Juror: Sonja Czekalski, Gallery Director
Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2022
Small Works III
Juror: Julie Farstad
Artsy.net and Artist Alliance Exhibition
Above + Below
Juror: Jennifer Perlmutter
Artsy.net and Artist Alliance Exhibition
Choice
Juror: Jen Tough
Artsy.net and Artist Alliance Exhibition
56th Annual National Drawing and Small
Sculpture Show
Juror: Sharon Kopriva
Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar
College, Corpus Christi, TX
Your True Colors
Juror: Nicholas Wilton
Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, CA
2021
Director’s Invitational Exhibition of Mixed
Media
Invited by Michael Friedland
Corte Madera Community Center, Corte Madera,
CA
The State of Contemporary Drawing
Juror: Bob Swearengin
Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Summer Open Juried Show
Juror: Michael Friedland
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
A Moment of Reflection
Juror: Emebet Korn, owner/curator of Desta
Gallery
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2013
National Juried Exhibition
Jurors: Marc D’Estout & Suzanne Gray
ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA
Out of the Blue
Juror: Ruth Braunstein
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2012
Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition
Juror: Michael Duncan
Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA
AB 25/Collective Memories
Curators: Mark Eanes and Hedi Desuyo
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA
2004
CCASee (Alumni Exhibition)
Jurors: Stephen Oliver & Dale Lanzone
Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland CA
1 in 30 Gallery Group Show
Curator: Michaela Peters
1 in 30 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Arts on Fire VI
Juror: Renny Pritkin
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
(Received Artist Merit
Award)
In Other Words
Juror: Patt Morrison
The Second City Council, Long Beach
CA
Pieces: Collage/Assemblage
Juror: Inez Storer
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA
(Received Coordinators Award)
1999
Postcard Show
Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco CA
1996
Text/Context
Arts
Benicia Center Gallery, Benicia CA
1995
Faculty Exhibition
California State Summer School for the Arts
Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
1994
MFA Group Show
Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland CA
CCA Annual Awards Exhibition
Barclay Simpson Gallery, Lafayette,
CA
With the Earth
Gallery Route 1
Point Reyes, CA
Faculty Exhibition
California State Summer School for the Arts
Cal State Fresno, Fresno CA
1993
This Space
Gallery Here, Oakland CA
Bay Area Book Arts
Irwin Student Center Galleries,
CCA, Oakland CA
Peripheral Vision (MFA Solo Show)
Door 3 Gallery, Oakland CA
1992
CCAC at Mills
Mills College Library, Oakland
CA
Honors and Awards
1993
Barclay Simpson Scholarship
1993
Master of Fine Arts, with
Distinction
California College of the Arts, Oakland CA
1983 Bachelor of Arts, History
Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Exhibitions
