135th Anniversary Annual Members Exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

As an artist and a parent of four young children, trying to navigate life and love within the contexts of the larger world can be complicated. This work emotes imagery of place and time with playful and controlled shapes and color, often feeling like organizing chaos. The work reveals personalities and emotions that have conversations about shape, space and color. The act of painting itself is a metaphor for what we reveal and conceal about ourselves, moving through space and time, collecting emotions and deciding what we put on the surface and what we hide. What we know, and what we need to learn.  

Fear of the dark and nighttime in the city often feels menacing for me. I wanted to paint a piece that reflects a city that is welcoming and friendly at night, a place we would want to be.  

On any rainy and dreary day, one does not expect to see such joyful splashes of colors. I was drawn to the people going about their business, unaware of the colorful display they were making at this one moment in time.  

I like the ethereal quality of finding images and shapes within and behind other shapes. I find ways to find "safe passage" through the canvas, much as we all manuever through life and find our way. Life is like a puzzle and we all have to find a way to make all the pieces fit. Intuitively I convey feelings in a particular painting depending on my situation at the time..exploring the way shapes intersect in life and the way we someimes hide the obvious behind a mask. However I want the viewer to reach their own conclusions about what the symbolism may represent and decide what I may have been thinking.  

This piece Attraction is about spaces defined by the ropes all over. Attraction for one element a window to another window. The polish bronze is reflecting that choice. The black shape is reflected on the polish bronze.  

Geometric forms that represent balance and structure, tempered by modulating rays of light, combine to form a kaleidoscope of infinite possibilities. Inspired by the holistic concepts of space and time in the spiritual worlds of Indigenous and Eastern cultures, where empty space is significant and represents the potential for new ideas and possibilities, this work uses “empty” space and a cyclic array of forms and colors to create an nth dimensional world with spatial and temporal transformations that manifest various perceptual dichotomies.  

The thermal mists of Yellowstone National Park offer a stunning display of colorful hues. As the superheated water rises creating billowing clouds of saturated color that dance and wist in the light above the landscape, a mesmerizing scene unlike anywhere on earth and one that inspired in me a desire to capture some fragment of it.  

Who Told You That is a painting about shared histories-the stories that make us who we are and the stories other people tell themselves about us. Using bold colors and sculptural layers, my painting process is a developing tale and conversation between my materials and myself. To me this painting reflects an evolving universe where communication is less concrete. The narrative I’m creating becomes secondary to the narrative a viewer creates for themself. I’m interested in evoking memories and creating a history on my canvas, my own and yours, using rhythmic color, layers, shapes, marks and lines.  

There is something beautiful about the pure movement of tones between black and white in a photograph that can evoke in the viewer an emotive sensation. I deconstruct and reassemble photographic prints with other materials to allow for new imagery to develop, and I am passionate about the subjects that I work with. Subjects range from photographs of noted artists and writers, found album photos, and family portraits. Ambiguity and familial bond make the work all the more intriguing to me. From a single photograph, multiple images can emerge to portray strength, fragility, beauty, demise and love in a single moment.  

This painting is inspired by remembered tulips whose magic and beauty in their fullness of bloom touched me emotionally. This painting, as with much of my work, evolved over time through my passionate interest in investigating and exploring the tools of painting, including color and textures and also line, shape patterns and layering -in service of expressing the magic and joy of nature's creations. I seek to create paintings which create magic and have an emotional resonance. I want my paintings to invite the viewer to enter, wander around, and also be rewarded for prolonged looking by making continual new discoveries such as finding a color, texture, or shape not immediately noticed.

My art is a profound dialogue between our planet’s crisis and my creative expression.