ABOUT
A great collector said that underneath any American abstraction, you’ll find a landscape. These abstractions come out of light and landscape. I’m inspired by the horizons and seas I’ve moved into, and that have moved into me. I lived in the Mediterranean for years, and California for 20–watching the light play off the landscape and ocean. The images I make are as much the result of building as of seeing. The horizon lines make expanses like skies meeting seas or fields. I like to think they inspire dreaming: Light resonating like burning bushes…deep, bright, ethereal. For me, making art affirms light and dark, the senses, and Dreaming. I have been told that my paintings are like Buddhist thangkas - a painted or embroidered Buddhist teaching tool.
EDUCATION
- MFA, The American University, Washington, D.C.
- Painting, Villa Arson CNAC, Nice, France
- Painting, Filmmaking, Animation, Drawing, SMFA Boston, MA
EXHIBITIONS
- John McEvoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Robert Beck Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
- Marin Open Studios, San Rafael, CA
- furniture.It, San Anselmo, CA
- San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
- Mad River Post, San Francisco, CA
- Marin Arts Council Juried Show, Mill Valley Community Center
- The Asian Aesthetic: Interpretations, Bradford Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- AIDS Benefit, 250 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA
- Northern California Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA Juror: John Berggruen, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- W.C.A. Membership Show, Soquel, CA
- The Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
- New Women's Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
- Poets and Painters, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
- Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C. Juror: John Figura
- Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
- Art Barn Gallery, Washington, D.C. Juror: Chris Addison, Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Painting '90, Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- Emerson Gallery/McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
- Susan Conway Carroll Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington, D.C
- Kreeger Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
- Village Voice Gallery, Paris, France
- La Degustation de Moissy, Pré-St. Gervais, Paris, France
- Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
- Crome Architecture, San Rafael, CA "40 Paintings"
- East Bay Open Studios, Richmond, CA
- Church of Aesclepion Healing, San Rafael, CA
- The Black Box Gallery, Oakland, CA
- Culture Centre MJC, LES SALVAGES, Castres, France
- The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
- Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- SF MOMA, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Lecture in French and English - 19th and 20th century collections.