ARTIST STATEMENT
I make digital art about states of flux, continuum and the friction between humanity’s tracings and nature through landscape driven memory maps. My art shifts between context and abstraction informed by habitats, environmental forces and biospheres.
I’m an experimenter intrinsically rooted between the digital and traditional world. While my work is painterly, I use digital tools as a catalyst to explore possibilities unique to the media. I build loose structures with a pressure-sensitive digital pen sometimes layered with photo fragments that capture moments in time. As elements interplay I iterate, deconstruct and filter creations into a convergence of dissonance and harmony.
I live on the Central Coast of California. I'm deeply influenced by this beautiful but harsh land of extremes. Humans and climate change leave its mark on this fragile place. My work is a quest for collective cohesiveness in a disruptive rapidly evolving and impermanent world.
BIO
As a child growing up in NYC I was introduced to museums and cherished gifts of art supplies, by my mother, an artist. One of my earliest memories is of viscerally scribbling with a crayon in my crib.
I’ve had many lives as an artist: From creating comic books on “my desk” a window sill in our small apartment to being a street artist in Greenwich Village at age 12 and volunteering as an art aid at a state hospital.
I studied fine art at the School of Visual Arts as I lived and breathed art in Soho during the 70s. This was a time when Minimalism and Conceptualism dominated the NY art scene but my sensibilities came alive with the birth of Neo-Expressionism. As a young artist I left NYC to seek expansive horizons in the mountains of Colorado and the high desert of Santa Fe.
For a time I put my fine art practice on the back burner and enjoyed a long career in San Francisco as a visual designer. My deep understanding of digital media coupled with the invent of the pressure sensitive digital pen led me back to my original practice of art making with fresh vigor reminiscent of childhood freedoms. The pen converts personal mark-making into digital data that open new creative explorations not possible in my earlier mixed media work.
I look towards the haunting landscapes of Anselm Kiefer, the painterly nuanced shifts of color and space in Per Kirkeby’s paintings and Kiki Smith’s language of embodiment as my fuel for expression in this new media.
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EDUCATION
1970 Whitney Museum Studio
1973 School of Visual Arts, BA, Fine Arts
1990 Center for Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA 1990
1999 SFSU, Digital Arts Program
1970 Whitney Museum Studio
1973 School of Visual Arts, BA, Fine Arts
1990 Center for Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA 1990
1999 SFSU, Digital Arts Program
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming:
2025 "What can't be spoken", Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2025 "Capturing the Light", Monterey Art Council, Monterey County, Ca
2022 Miniatures, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey County, Ca
2022 Explorers Against Extinction, The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Explorers Against Extinction, Gallery@oxo, London
2003 Annual Art Exhibition, Pro Arts Commons, Oakland CA
2003 Celebration of the Arts, Emery Arts, Emeryville, CA
2002 "Fresh Paint", Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA
1976 Fort Mason Bicentennial Group Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
1973 "Emerging Women Artists", Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J.
2025 "What can't be spoken", Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2025 "Capturing the Light", Monterey Art Council, Monterey County, Ca
2022 Miniatures, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey County, Ca
2022 Explorers Against Extinction, The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 Explorers Against Extinction, Gallery@oxo, London
2003 Annual Art Exhibition, Pro Arts Commons, Oakland CA
2003 Celebration of the Arts, Emery Arts, Emeryville, CA
2002 "Fresh Paint", Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA
1976 Fort Mason Bicentennial Group Exhibit, San Francisco, CA
1973 "Emerging Women Artists", Douglass College, New Brunswick, N.J.