ARTIST STATEMENT
The Essence of Paint: Color, Texture, Relationships, History
Mixing my paints from pigments I obtain highly saturated colors & sometime
unusual hues; varying the amount of linseed oil leads to a range of "creaminess" or
stiffness; by starting each new painting with paint left over from a prior piece I
achieve a link (sometimes subtle) between paintings. I work in several layers,
covering over & wiping away until I discover where the painting wants to go. Part
of this activity remains as history.
Mathematics is part of my background training and geometry has always intrigued
me.
What I hope to present to you, the viewer is a painting that engages your eye,
stirs your emotions and perhaps tickles your sense of fantasy and whimsicality.
Just remember: the color made me do it!
In my world paint is an entity. It has a life!
RESUME
Solo Exhibition
KI Design Showroom, SF, summer 2004 - summer 2005
October 2011 "artist of the month", Sinopia (pigments: Sinopia.com)
Group Exhibitions
ARC Gallery juried show 2011
Village Theatre Art Gallery juried show 2011
Pazapa benefit auction held at Braunstein/Quay Gallery 2010
Berkeley Art Center exhibition 2010
UC Extension, SF, June 2009
A Different Day Gallery, Albany, CA, summer 2008
Mad River Post, SF, May - Sept 2007
Piedmont Lane Gallery, Oakland, CA 2005,2006
Three person show, Artescape Studios, San Ramon, CA, Nov 2004
Union Street, SF, ARTWALK, June 2004
Oakdale Painters Reception, 410 Jessie Street, SF, Feb 2004
UCSF Art for Aids Auction 2002 - 2011
ARTSPAN benefit auctions 2001 - 2011
SF Open Studios 2000 - 2011
SF Open Studios Group Show at SOMARTS 2000-2011
Mendocino Art Center juried art show 2000
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Wellesley College
Numerous classes in architecture, sculpture, papermaking,
drawing, watercolors, acrylic, pastel & oil at UC Berkeley,
California College of Art, Las Positas Community College,
Mendocino Art Center, private instruction with Larry Robinson
Born
Brockton, Massachusetts
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