Artist's Statement
Drawing is a meditative, intuitive place for me. Mark making, discovering and exploring the expressive nature of line, while giving importance to negative space, creates a satisfying tension in me as each work evolves. The images are at times like notations, which reference landscape, architecture, the natural world, while also reflecting my internal life. Media I choose--ink, pastel, graphite, and the tools--pens, bamboo, pencils stick, brushes--allow for gratifying immediacy as well as their own unique results. What is key is the process: playing, tapping into my subconscious, responding to each mark to the point of knowing when to stop.
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Juried Shows:
Bare Essentials: Minimalism in the 21st Century, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2011
2010 Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Sept. 2010
20th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial 2010, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, June 2010
National Art Premiere 2010, Elmhurst Art Center, Elmhurst, IL, January, 2010
19th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial 2008, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, June 2008
New Works by New Artists, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, November 2007
Works on Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, September 2007
12 x 12, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL December 2006
12 x 12, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL December 2005
Artlink, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, November 2003
Alice & Arthur Baer Art Competition, Beverly Art Center, Beverly, IL, November 2001
New Horizons in Art, Chicago, IL 1990
Pastels ’90, Midwest Pastel Society, Palette & Chisel Academy, May 1990
16th Union League Club Exhibition, Union League Club, Chicago, IL, 1989—Gatziolis Award
Midwest Pastel Society Members Show, St Charles, IL, 1988—Third Prize
Selected One Person Shows
Co-op Gallery, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL March 1990
Countryside Are Center, Arlington Heights, IL, January 1990
Education: BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Located: Chicago, Illinois
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