Statement
We take great comfort in defining edges between this and that,
between what we can control and what we cannot. Many boundaries
are actually very fluid and fungible, not straight lines at all,
elusive and unknowable. Things pass from one side to the other,
rise from the earth into the sky or fall from the sky. Even the
transition from life to death is not sharp. The infinite is not
separated from the finite, but constantly approached by it.The
illusory straight line between earth and sky is the impetus and
connecting link in my recent work. Employing gesture, scribble
and calligraphic line, I am attempting to paint that very permeable
line. I seek a certain painterly chaos and abandon that mirror
my uncertainty about what we can know and what we cannot. The
work hovers between abstraction and landscape, without being precisely
either.
I
watch the bay closely from my house and studio. The colors and
light of the view are endlessly changing. The weather can obscure
the edge of the bay completely or brightly illuminate the white
loading cranes across on the other side. Afternoon sun can make
the windows in the hills above look on fire. The activity of ships
and boats provides new color daily. I am fascinated, too, by the
view to the west as you drive to the beach and see the ocean appear
higher than the city and then the horizon line stacked above:
strata that denote the edge of one and the beginning of the next,
our sensible horizon or “apparent boundary". Trying
to contain the uncontainable and tame the unknowable, I am stitching
the sky to the sea to make firm the seam of the “apparent
boundary".
Bio
Education
1994 MFA, Painting, San Francisco State University
1971 BA, Art, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1968-9 San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Apparent Boundary, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco
2003 Topographic Sense, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2003 Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA, The Hecksher Museum of
Art, Huntington, NY, curators, Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Meryman
2000 2000 Juried Annual, Pro Arts, Oakland, juror, Larry Rinder
1999 20th Annual Bay Arts, Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont,
juror, John Killacky
1998 10, Sanchez Art Center Gallery, Pacifica, juried San Francisco
State Alumni Exhibition, juror, Tony May
1997 Recent Work, Sanchez Art Center Gallery, Pacifica, three
woman show with Diane Stevens and Susan Ginnever
1997 Arts on Fire, Sanchez Art Center Gallery, Pacifica, juror,
Cheri Raciti
1996 Linked by Gesture, Downtown Dance/Art Space, Sebastopol,
two woman show with Christine Walker
1996 1996 Regional Canvas: A Survey of Painting and Mixed Media,
Pro Arts, Oakland, Jurors: Long Nguyen and Paul Pratchenko
1994 Osmosis, San Francisco State University Gallery, MFA exhibit
1993 Drawing First, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, juror, Ann
Philbin
1993 Ninth Annual Juried National, Part II, Berkeley Art Center,
juror, Karen Tsujimoto
1992 National Graduate Drawing Show, Allen Priebe Gallery, University
of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Juror: Adolph Rosenblatt
1992 Bus Shelter Gallery, Lobby of the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art and outdoor Gannett poster light boxes in front of
the Museum, Jurors: Bob Riley, Karen Tsujimoto, and Enrique Chagoya
1981 Meyer Breier Weiss, San Francisco, Two woman show with Ina
Kozel
1978 Baskets, Meyer Breier Weiss, San Francisco
1977 Usable Art, Usable Clay, Braunstein Quay, San Francisco,
curated by Natasha Nicholson
1976 Artists’ Gifts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
curated by Natasha Nicholson
1975 Artists’ Gifts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
curated by Natasha Nicholson
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