Painter
Member of Flag since:
2019
FLAG Treasurer 2022-current
Artists Bio:
My primary medium is acrylic on canvas or wood panel.
I am from Virginia, living near Washington, D.C. where I frequented the galleries and museums from an early age.
I attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. The Fine Arts department was a rich place to learn about the broad range of creative thinking and expression, from Installation, Performance, Film, and Conceptual art, but I was at heart a painter.
After graduation, I moved to San Francisco, where I worked as an archival picture framer. Soon I was working for Crown Point Press, a prestigious intaglio printing press and gallery, where I framed the artwork for Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Wayne Thiebaud, Francesco Clemente and many others.
After working for several years as curator for a nonprofit art gallery, I attended San Francisco State University, receiving my MFA in painting. I moved to Florida soon after, and taught Art at Daytona State College, and high school and middle school for the Volusia County School District.
I feel that my art is as much a reflection of our times, and my experiences in life, as it is a love of color relationships, atmosphere, and striving for visual unity.
I am a member of Florida Artists’ Group, (FLAG), Beaux Arts of Central Florida, of which I am also the current President, and The Art League of Daytona Beach.
Artist Statement:
My purpose in making art is to use the medium of paint to capture significant moments in an environment that is changing more quickly than it appears to be, as it relates to human existence.
The reference to landscape appears frequently in my work, but not in the traditional, 19th century academic sense. There’s a lot of change in size relationships of objects and distance in space. My paintings are sometimes informed by photographs I take on my nature walks, when I use the technology of my cell phone to zoom in, searching for interesting plants or water reflections, so what the viewer sees is in a painting is an enlarged close-up of aspects of nature that they might not ordinarily notice, such as the pattern of vines clinging to a tree trunk. Then I draw out a composition, supplying images from my imagination. Atmospheric glazes give the paintings a dreamlike departure from reality. A painting is not finished until it possesses a powerful presence.
Exhibitions:
| Studio Art Farm, Mt. Dora, Fl. Group show, “Landscape and Water,” July-September, 2024. Florida State College, Jacksonville, Fl. Annual Symposium Exhibition, FLAG. June, 2024.Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, Fl. Two- person show: Surreal Worlds. Oct. 26, 2023-Jan. 28, 2024. Art League of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach, Fl. Group show: Melange. Aug. 27-Sept. 22, 2023 Gateway Center for the Arts, DeBary, Fl. Group show: 100 Degrees in the Shade. Aug. 22-Nov. 17, 2023. Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. Group show: Signals. July 1-29, 2023. The Ocean Center. Group Show: Naturally Volusia. Daytona Beach, Fl. Aug. 2022-Aug. 2023. Florida State College, Jacksonville. Group Show with Florida Artists Group. Blake Elliott Gallery, Deland, Fl. June-July, 2022. Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach. Beaux Arts annual exhibit. 2021. CityArts of Orlando. FLAG Area V exhibit. 2021 Bradenton Arts Center. Beaux Arts group show. 2021 Dunedin Fine Arts Center. FLAG annual exhibit. 2021 Art League of Daytona Beach. Figuratively Speaking. 2021. 1stPlace. Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Layers. 2021Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Trouble in Paradise. 2021 Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Unforeseen Journeys. 2021 Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. America, Then and Now. 2021. Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. Member’s Show. Award of Distinction. 2021 Art League of Daytona Beach, Florida. Group show with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020 Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. RED. Group show. 2020 Winter Garden City Hall, Florida. Homegrown. Group Show. 2020 Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida. Group show with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020 Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne, Florida. Group show with Florida Artists Group (FLAG). 2020 Orange County Central Library, Orlando, Florida. Group show with Beaux Arts of Central Florida. 2020 Enterprise Museum, Florida, Solo Show. 2020 Off the Beaten Path, Volusia County, Florida. Open studios event. 2020. Senior Resource Alliance, Orlando, Florida. Group show. 2020 Ronald McDonald Charities, Orlando, Florida. Permanent Collection. 2020 Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida. Permanent Collection. 2020 Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida. First Thursdays single night event. 2019 The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida, Solo Show: Native Boundaries 2019 Deland City Hall, Deland, Florida, Solo Show: Volusia County and Other Places 2019 Daytona Art League, Daytona Florida, Figuratively Speaking, juried exhibition. Award recipient 2019, Daytona Art League Member’s Show. Award recipient. 2019, The Hub on Canal, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Solo show: The Act of Leaving. 2017 pARTners: teachers and students exhibit together. Harris House Gallery/Atlantic Center for the Arts. 2017 Off the Beaten Path, Volusia County, Florida. Open studios event. 2016. Frosted: group exhibition. The Hub on Canal. 2016 Paint Strong Orlando, Orlando Public Library, 2016 The Hub on Canal, Exhibiting Artist, 2015-16 Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour, Deland, Florida, 2015 Gallery Flux, Ashland, Virginia juried exhibition, 2014 Gateway Center for The Arts, Member’s show, 2014 Daytona Art League, Member’s show, 2014 Daytona Art League, Member’s show, 2013 Deland Fall Festival of the Arts, Educator’s Exhibit, 2013 West Side Story, with Martin Hurtado, Peabody Auditorium, 2013 Applaud that Woman, group show, Florida Museum for Women Artists, 2013 Debary City Hall, solo show, 2012 Teachers Hang it Up, Four Volusia County Art Educators, Peabody Auditorium, 2012 River Springs Middle School Library, solo show, 2011 Annual Art Teacher’s Exhibit: Daytona Art League, 2009; Art Haus, 2010-2014 Deland Fall Festival of the Arts, 1994 Daytona Beach Community College, West Campus, solo show, 1994 Daytona Beach Community College, West Campus, solo show, 1994 MFA Thesis Show, San Francisco State University/Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse, San Francisco, 1991 Group show, San Francisco State University, Stephen Stillwell Scholarship Exhibition, 1989 Café Francisco, solo show, 1987 A.R.E. Gallery, group show with Karyn Yandow and Rachel Orkin, 1984 New College of California, solo show, 1980 |
Professional Organizations:
Florida Artists’ Group, 2019- (current).
FLAG Treasurer 2022-current
Beaux Arts of Central Florida, (current)
The Art League of Daytona Beach, (current)
The Hub on Canal (2015-2018)
Education:
Teaching Certification, Art K-12, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
MFA
San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California
BFA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1980-2019
Full time Artist, 2017-2019
Art Educator, Volusia County Schools, 1995-2017
Adjunct Professor, Daytona Beach Community College, 1993-2003
Gallery Assistant Director, Curator, A.R.E. Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 1980-1984
Gallery Assistant, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., 1983-1985
Archival Framer, Crown Point Press, Oakland, Ca., 1980-1984
CV 1980-2019
Full time Artist, 2017-currently
Art Educator, Volusia County Schools, 1995-2017
Adjunct Professor, Daytona Beach Community College, 1993-2003
Gallery Assistant Director, Curator, A.R.E. Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 1980-1984
Gallery Assistant, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., 1983-1985
Archival Framer, Crown Point Press, Oakland, Ca., 1980-1984