Statement
Paper
is a delicate barrier which protects and contains the many illusions
of artistic space. Cutting into paper exposes these illusions
and returns the paper to a medium in itself. In addition, the
cutouts simultaneously create and reveal a dimension beyond the
paper. Paper and paper cutouts are my chosen medium. I understand
paper, and my work, as allegorically aligned with skin. The paper’s
surface is the external covering for the illusionist space beyond.
I understand this space to be fluid, changing and susceptible,
as are the emotions under our skin. To amplify this, I hang my
paper cutouts away from the wall and allow the space between to
dance with shadows, light silhouettes and reflective color from
the back of the paper. The simple lines and silhouettes cut into
the paper multiply and mingle against the wall, continually in
a state of reaction to light, atmosphere and air currents.bio
Bio
Education
1997 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Master of
Fine Arts in Painting E. Poplack Merit Scholarship
1992 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Bachelor
of Fine Arts, Concentration in Painting, Merit Scholarship
2005 South Africa Cultural Exchange Workshop, Cape Town,
South Africa
1992/4 Eight Week Painting Workshop, Montangana, Italy
1991 Lorenzo De Medici ~ Instituto di Studi Italiani Florence,
Italy
Awards
and Residencies
2002 Individual Artist Grant from Marin Arts Council, San Rafael,
CA
2002 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Artist in Residence
2000 de Young Artist Studio, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San
Francisco, CA Artist in Residence
2000/1 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, Affiliate
Artist
Solo
Exhibitions
2004 Tenuous ampersandinternationalarts San
Francisco, CA
2001 Fluttering Fairytales ampersandinternationalarts
San Francisco, CA
1999 Encyclopedia of Peripheral Vision Galesburg Art
Center Galesburg, IL
1998 Visual Conversations Paint Creek Center for the
Arts Rochester, MI
Group
Exhibitions
2005 A New View Julie Baker Fine Arts
Grass Valley, CAClose Calls Headlands Center for the
Arts Sausalito, CA
2004 Bay Area Currents Oakland Art Gallery
Oakland, CASubtle playSpace, California College of
Arts San Francisco, CA
2003 CSUS Art Department Faculty Show University Library
Gallery Sacramento, CASliv and Dulet Summer Line New
Langton Arts San Francisco, CAIndividual Artist Grantees
Showcase Exhibit Falkirk Cultural Center
San Rafael, CA
2002 Access Pakhuset Copenhagen,
Denmark9<24 Upton Gallery, Buffalo State
Buffalo, NY
2001 Auspicious Day Mills College
Oakland, CASurface, Line and Mark Paint Creek Center
for the Arts Rochester, MI
2000 Multiplicity in Time and Space ampersandinternationalarts
San Francisco, CA
1999 Constellating Belcher Studios San
Francisco, CA
1998 Michigan Artists Paint Creek Center for the Arts
Rochester, MIOne Year Cranbrook Exhibition DMB&B
Inc. Troy, MI
1997 Five Artists Network Gallery Pontiac,
MIMichigan FineArts Birmingham Bloomfield Arts
Association Bloomfield Hills, MINew Visions
Ann Arbor Art Center Ann Arbor, MI
Commissions
2001 Beau Residence Little Rock, AR
1998 Cranbrook Institute of Science Bloomfield Hills,
MICowen Residence Pittsburgh, PA
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