GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Award of Merit, Cultural Arts Alliance Juried Show
2021 Cultural Arts Alliance Member Show
2020 Emerald Coast theater Company (Cul tural Arts Alliance Member Show)
2020-2021 “Drawing Parallels,” Regional Juried Show, Museum of Boulder
2018 Cutting Edge: Nontraditional Glass, International juried show, Arts Benicia
2017 International juried show at Sebastopol Center for the Arts
2017 Undercurrents: The Rising Tide of SJSU MFA Graduates, Cabrillo College Got Glass
2017 Undercurrents: Emerging Artists of San Jose, Art Ark Gallery San Jose
2016 Mission College “Not so Heavy Metal”
2015, 2016, 2017 Glass Arts Society International Student Exhibitions
2015, 2016 SJSU Glass Student Show (Curated the 2015 show and exhibited)
2015, 2016, 2017 SJSU MFA Student Shows
2012 MPC Juried Student Show
INDIVIDUAL SHOWS
Within, Pacific Grove Art Center 2019
Thesis Show, Within the Spaces: The Spaces Within, SJSU April 23-28, 2017
ATC show, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, SJSU 2016
Perchance to Sleep SJSU 2016
Sandyhook Arithmetic, 2014 York School Gallery, Monterey, CA
EDUCATION
San Jose State University, MFA Sculpture 2017
Monterey Peninsula Community College, AA Studio Art, AA Sculpture 2013
University of Virginia, M.A., Dramatic Literature /Criticism, 1988
Yale University, B.A., cum laude, Theater Studies, 1979
About
Every summer of my childhood, I spent the majority of each season at my family’s place on the shores of the Potomac River where it widens to meet the Chesapeake Bay. The house was a rustic, five room, cinder block cabin at the end of a mile dirt road. By my parents’ design there was no phone, no television, no radio, no car (for many years no hot water either). My companions were my three siblings and our various pets, and our playground was the river and surrounding woods and marshes.
This early immersion in the natural world has had an immense impact on my life and art. I learned to belong to a place, to know it intimately. The forms, colors, and textures of that river environment occur frequently in my sculptural work, and humankind’s relationship with Nature is a recurring theme.
In my art practice, I am drawn to topics that explore liminal interfaces, moments in which two or more powerful realities exist simultaneously. In addition to humans' relationship with the natural world, topics of my work include memory, relationships, time, and aging. As an artist, I am particularly drawn to the gaps, which lie between the frozen moments that are the collection of objects and ‘facts.’ It is in these spaces that the imagination can take root in possibility, to say what could have been said. By their very nature, liminal moments are not linear, and cannot be represented in linear format. The specific forms of sequencing in my work, like the art objects themselves, are created to tell one version of a story while remaining open enough for viewers to interweave their own narratives. I attempt to create a metaphor, a poem in visual form.
My design work reinforces my artistic practice by allowing for the exploration of new shapes, textures, and processes.
Memberships
Glass Arts Society
Society of North American Goldsmiths
Cultural Arts Alliance Walton Beach
Eastern Shore Arts Center
Mobile Arts Council