I explore the possibilities of narratives, visual puns and elaborate doodles. It is better to be inspired by sad, tender and funny thoughts rather than by rational ideas of what to paint. I meander through a piece hoping to discover things that I cannot imagine (while awake). I paint in order to see. I can only transcend the medium through the process of building up the paint and breaking it down. Pieces of a story appear and as these images become too candid, I must sublimate them until formal aspects of composition, color, form and line fall into place. This process is a repetitive digression until the work is humbly revealed. In the end, there might be a story, but it is far off and a little fuzzy.
Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1992-1994, Boston, MA
Certificate Program, Massachusetts College of Art, 1990-1992, Boston, MA
Graphic Design Certificate Program, Brandeis University (cum laude), 1986, Waltham, MA
Bachelor of Arts, Somerville College/Oxford University, 1984 -1985, Oxford, England
Awards
Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grants Program, 2004
Somerville Arts Council Grant, 1999, 2001
One Person Exhibition
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA, 2005
Office Exhibition by Invitation
Two Person Exhibitions
Space 12 Gallery South End Boston, MA, 1999
“Color and Light: Abstract Works in Oil”
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA “Transformations”, 2005
The Tank, New York, NY “Works on Paper”, 2005
Aidekman Gallery, Medford, MA, “Tufts University 2nd Annual Juried Summer Exhibition”, 2005
ArtSpace, Maynard, MA, “Painting Now: Selections from the 2004 MCC Artist Grant Awards”, 2005
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA, 2005
Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA, “An Exhibit of 20 Recent SAC Grant Winners”, 2001
Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA, “Select 1999 Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners”, 1999
Showings
Open Studios, 6 Vernon Street, Somerville, MA, 1995--2005
Public and Corporate Collections
Meditech Corporation, Westwood, MA
Publications
Boston Globe (July, 2005) “At Tufts, Rewards in Improbable Experiments.” Cate McQuaid.
Bay Windows (January, 1999) “One of Us,” Rudy Kikel.
Somerville Journal (July, 1999) “Somerville Gets Eclectic,” Gary Duehr.
