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"We live in a rainbow of chaos." Paul Cézanne
STATEMENT
For most of my life, I have been creating art inspired by the beautiful places I visit. It is with art that I am best able to express my great joy in exploring and connecting with the natural world.
As an avid hiker, I spend most of my time in Wilderness, often exploring remote backcountry areas by myself. I hope to experience the natural world as far from civilization as possible and then to share my adventures and rambles through my art. I create bold compositions with unique angles, vibrant layers of color and loose brushstrokes to emphasize that these places are wild and dramatic.
I am especially interested in and challenged by the way changing light and shadows create spaces, transform color and influence mood in the landscape. I use these contrasts in light and dark to distort perspective, exaggerate colors and to create a new composition with a heightened dramatic atmosphere. I am trying to share the way I am feeling in that space as much as I am trying to capture the essence of the place itself. In this way, my paintings are as much self-portrait, as landscape.
Within these dramatic spaces, I intend to show a subtle beauty where the viewer might never have thought to look. I hope to convey my excitement in seeing small, delicate wonders like the flowering cactus or the expansive and vertiginous views from a mountain peak. It is also my hope that the viewer of my art will come away with a new respect and appreciation for the world(s) around him or her and that, ultimately, more people will go discover, explore, cherish and protect these "new" worlds on their own.
EDUCATION
1999-2000 non-degree art courses - American University, Washington, DC
1988-1992 B.F.A. - Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 --- 89XXXhibition (juried group show) - Marjorie Barrick Museum (Jurors - Brian Paco Alvarez & Gina Quaranto) - Las Vegas, NV
2007 Juried Show - Contemporary Arts Collective - Las Vegas, NV (Juror - Sara Kellner)
2006 Group Show – Contemporary Arts Collective - Las Vegas, NV
2005 Solo Show – Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse Rotunda - Las Vegas, NV
2005 Best of Show Juried Show (BOSS) – Winchester Cultural Center - Las Vegas, NV (Juror - Michele Quinn)
2003 13th Annual New Images Exhibition – New Image Gallery - Harrisonburg, VA (Juror - Mary Ann Redding)
2002 Photo Op 2002 – Millennium Arts Center - Washington, DC
2002 Photo Op 2002 Juried Olympics Art Show – Artspace Forum Gallery - Salt Lake City, UT (Jurors - Bill Wooby, Abraham Lubelski, John Telford)
2000 Juried Group Exhibition –Cafritz Gallery - Washington, DC
2000 Juried Competition – Adams Morgan Cultural Center - Washington, DC
1999 Group Exhibition – Watkins Gallery - Washington, DC
1992 Thesis Exhibition – Corcoran Gallery of Art - Washington, DC
1991 Juried Exhibition – White Walls Gallery - Washington, DC (Juror - Brockie Stevenson)
PUBLISHED WORKS
"Angles" - Las Vegas Review-Journal 6/17/10 - ad for Gold Butte
"Flax" small inset in 2010 Wild Nevada Calendar, Friends of Nevada Wilderness
"Spirit Mountain" featured in 2008 Wild Nevada Calendar, Friends of Nevada Wilderness