Statement and Bio
Though my work is rooted in drawing and painting, it often includes various experimental forms—sculpture, textile, mobile—and involves a language of abstraction within the context of suggested landscape; elements often occupy a strange and suspended kind of space, with multiple implied ground planes. There are hovering collaged and drawn forms across wide open space, and occasional areas of text. Material language explorations often lead to what I see as a musicality of thought into hovering patterns and shapes. In all of my work there is a tension between order, structure, and chance. If thought occupies space, the work seems to give form to some sense of that fleeting placeness.
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent years living in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and now live in Fayetteville, TX, equidistant between Houston and Austin. I have a BFA from New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. I taught for many years at Rutgers, the University of Michigan and Texas State University.
National and International exhibitions of drawings and paintings, installations and objects include Bill Davenport Optical Projects in Houston, Sofa Gallery and Big Medium Gallery in Austin; in the Drawing Biennial at SCA Rogers Gallery in San Antonio, the Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center in NY, Weatherspoon Museum in NC, Aldrich Museum in CT.; Paul Kotula Projects and Susanne Hilberry Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Detroit,MI ; Carroll and Sons in Boston.MA, NYLON Gallery in London, Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin, among many other venues. Her work is included in private and public collections both nationally and internationally, including the Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Fidelity, Entemann Collection Germany, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, Rose Art Museum, McNay Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Mott Children’s Hospital, and James Rosenquist.
Artist residency fellowships include MacDowell in New Hampshire, Cites des Artes in Paris, Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY, VCCA in Virginia, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland.
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