Galleries
Like music, abstract form can express deep feelings and understanding of life without words.
I changed art forms several years ago after primarily being a photographer, then exploring collage and artist books and now to drawing and mixed media artwork. I made a decision not to exhibit while I developed these new bodies of work. This allowed me to explore new materials and means of expressing ideas and feelings in the solitude of my studio, without concern for the practical side of promoting and selling my art.
I changed art forms several years ago after primarily being a photographer, then exploring collage and artist books and now to drawing and mixed media artwork. I made a decision not to exhibit while I developed these new bodies of work. This allowed me to explore new materials and means of expressing ideas and feelings in the solitude of my studio, without concern for the practical side of promoting and selling my art.
Mixed Media
My mixed media work incorporates drawing, collage and printmaking using ink, acrylic paint, oil stick, wax, graphite and artist crayon. Using a variety of materials and mediums opens up the possibilities and a looser, freer way of working that incorporates mark making and gesture. This current series is inspired by maps and encrypted language. The images remotely resemble land mass shapes and the drawing connects as if a fictional latitude/longitude marking. Abstract line evokes written language but at a remove so that it cannot be clearly deciphered. The pieces look as though they contain knowable information, but it is just out of reach. Click here to see more Mixed Media
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Drawings
I work intuitively from the inside out – responding to color, movement, and gesture. Sometimes my imaginary images are realistic, other times as cryptic as just a sense of color, a feeling, or a dream. When drawing I try to leave thoughts and judgments behind and let the art appear as it will. Click here to see Drawings
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Collages
I am intrigued by family stories and family history, and use these themes in collage and also incorporate them into artist’s books. The layering of materials – old photographs from family albums, found and original text and paper ephemera - to build a collage - lends itself to the exploration of the threads that bind families together and the interdependence and relation of family members. I use found and original text, collage of various papers, a variety of binding styles as well as found and original photographs. I also use old how-to manuals, dictionaries, music books, shorthand manuals, and other reference books as material for my collages. I am drawn to written instructions, rules, regulations, and procedures as a starting point in my artwork. Out of context, these words take on totally new, often poignant or funny, meanings. Click here to see Collages
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Photography
Photography was the first visual art form that I was compelled to learn and practice. It felt like I could better understand the world by creating my own sense of order. I started making photographs as a teenager when I unexpectedly received a used twin lens reflex camera in the mail from a distant relative. I like being able to choose a piece of my day to day life and capture it on film however I see it, and then hold it still as an object to be studied and contemplated. My formal art training is in traditional black & white photography from which I moved into alternative processes including cliché verre, cyanotype and hand coloring. This led me to collage and artist books. Click here to see more Photography
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