Artist Archive
Nature/Culture
September 26, 2011
These paintings represent when nature and culture harmoniously coexist.
2011 | Paintings
Earth/Land
September 14, 2011
Earth/Land My recent landscape paintings of earth and land art are portraits of a dialectic; they instill the inherent contradictions between landscape painting and earth/land art. This body of work addresses a range of dichotomies: nature and culture, outdoors and indoors, Smithson and Gussow, territorial intervention versus the unobtrusive gaze. In the 60s and 70s […]
2011 | Paintings
Beaufort Scale
July 26, 2011
Calm Again; The Beaufort Scale Revised The beauty of the wind is that you can’t see it, only what it does to everything else. *** In 1806, Sir Francis Beaufort devised a universal scale based on observation in which the force of the wind is indicated by numbers from 0-12; the higher the number, the […]
2011 | Prints
Dioramas
July 26, 2011
Dioramas I was recently invited to be an artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska. My painting materials were shipped out ahead of me, however, they never arrived. My planned project was a bust. It was a typical Nebraska July – hotter and more humid than anywhere I have ever known. […]
2011 | Photographs
Trees/Lines
July 26, 2011
Trees/Lines I live in NYC, where we have glimpses of nature, rarely if ever an all out panoramic view. I seek out these urban reprieves while waiting for a light to change or when stuck in traffic. Waiting becomes bearable, even pleasant, something I look forward to.
2011 | Paintings
Ash/ Milk
July 1, 2011
Ash and Milk When my mother died a few years back, she requested I do something interesting with her ashes, just not bury her. A few weeks after she died I gave birth to my first child. It seemed only natural to mix her ashes with my breast milk to make a painting medium in […]
