BIO
About my work
I engage in a dialogue with paint. My statement is composed of each dot I make with the brush. It requires me to work intimately on the surface, and yet I also move away from the surface in order to see how the layers of mark-making negate earlier marks and reveal a new form. This process is an interchange with the painting activity. In this way, I slowly arrive at my own truth, which is visual satisfaction.
My painting is gouache on a wood panel or on a watercolor paper. I build up dots of color into half-inch, stalactite-like columns with rich variations in color layers. From a distance the painting is a series of dots, which create larger patterns toward a uniformed center. When observed more closely the third dimension is revealed, a forest of multicolored columns. The surface is dense. Colors on the flat surface of the panel or the paper react with the colors on the surface of each stalk when perceived closely.
I challenge the way a painting is conventionally perceived. The sculptural surface moves viewers across the field of the painting. This forces the viewer's eyes to mix and optically process the various properties of color. Ultimately, the viewers experience the subtle metamorphosis of the color in the paintings as the painting shifts from two dimensions to three dimensions and back again, according to the viewer's angle to and distance from the work.
Painting to me, is a speculative and negotiable activity. It has become even more critical to the way I make art and serve as a counterpoint to my experience of seeing in today's world; visual stimulation is more fast-moving and superficial with the advent of the high speed Internet and digital technology.
Exhibitions
- Solo Shows -
4/2010 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
3/2010 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
9/2007 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
4/2006 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
4/2005 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
6/2004 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2/2003 Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
6/2002 HallSpace, Boston, MA
1/2002 Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
9/2001 Carol Schlosburg Gallery,
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
- Group Shows -
2009
Ten Webster Salon
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
Opening Line
New Art Center in Newton, MA
2007
Painted Visions: Painting by Award-Winning Mass. Artists
MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2006
Saturated Color, More or Less
Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2005
Annual Exhibitions
The St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA
The Repetitive Mark
Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
By Arrangement
Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
By Arrangement
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2004
Wonderment
Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Ocean View
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Curators' Intuition
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2003
Different Strokes: Boston Painters
New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Between Constraints
Studio SOTO, Boston, MA
On Closer Inspection: Marks of Making in the Field
Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
Boston Abstraction Now
OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
Max. 24” Wide
Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
The BCA's Annual Drawing Show
Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
2001
Open Season
HallSpace, Boston, MA
See 13@Kingston
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
3 Person Show
Gallery@Green Street, J.P., MA
2000
Charged
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
New Work, New Idea
Gallery@Green Street, J.P., MA
Recent Work
Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA
Open Season
HallSpace, Boston, MA
1999
Artist Spirit
Codman Square Center, Dorchester, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
Faculty 1999
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
1998
Northeast Open
Haywood Gallery, Worcester, MA
Almost a Billion Seconds
Barkalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
In the Spirit of Drawing
Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Awards
2010
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Painting
2009
Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Award
2006
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Painting
The First Place, The Best Gallery Show of an Emerging Artist in New England in 2006, AICA, International Association of Art Critics
2005
Selected as a winner at Open Studios 2004 Northeastern Competition
(published in New American Paintings Vol.56)
2004
Grant-in-Aid Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation
2003
The Best Artist, Affordable, Boston Magazine, August 2003
2002
Selected as a winner, Open Studios 2002 Northeastern Competition
(published in New American Paintings Vol. 44)
1998
Juror's Award, Northeast Open, Haywood Gallery, Worcester, MA
Education
1999 MFA, Painting Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
1997 BFA, Fine Arts Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1996 Diploma, Fine Arts Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1991 Boston Visual School, Trieste, Italy