ARTIST STATEMENT

Making art fuels me and helps me be more whole.  I pivoted back to art after a 20-year hiatus.  Art helps heal me as I journey with traumatic brain injury.

 

I currently create 2D compositions in my home studio where I explore abstract through representational techniques.  I love the residue and character of media, so plan to see some expressive marks.

• Some of my self-portrait work and abstract oil paintings allow me to dive deeply into very personal emotional states and to allow those states to influence the content and mark making.

• My life drawings--charcoal, pastel, and ink--are a negotiation between myself and the models.  Their decisions for positioning and my composition decisions result in my cognitive and emotional response to the human form.

• As a social scientist, I have a passion for creating art of social truths.  Sounds snooty, but I am trying. Rather than capturing a possessive snapshot of "the other," I explore perspective and composition that helps reflect an experience of a social truth. 

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Sharing art also connects me with others—a fundamental social act.

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