About the Work
My entire color palette exploded after returning from a trip to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The intensity of the red and black volcanic rock, the vivid colors of the African vendors’ clothes and turbans, the surprising opaque green of ocean inlets, all worked together to impress their image on me. Back home in my studio, I furiously mixed paints to capture the new color combinations while they were still before my eyes. I wanted to feel the cool of the blue-purple shade of shadow under the arched trees where local men sit side by side along a bench, to recapture the movement and excitement of market day in a sun-filled square at the top of a hill where locals, merchants, and tourists pour over an eclectic mix of wares, and to taste the sea-soaked breeze blowing over the jet-black volcanic coastline. Working fast to get this all down on canvas, a new color palette suddenly started to emerge and inhabit my layered compositions of human forms within textured landscapes. This new color sense continues to inspire my work.

Recent Exhibitions
2006 Gallery at Club Passim, two-person show
2006 Vernon Street Open Studios
2005 Somerville City Hall, group show
2004 Willoughby & Baltic Gallery, group show
2004 Maven Gallery, two-person show
2004 Sacramento Street Gallery, solo show
2004 Channing Gallery, two-person show
2003 Frankenthaler Gallery, two-person show
2003 Channing Gallery, group show
2003 Story Street Gallery, Cambridge Center for Adult Ed, two-person show
2003 Cambridge Public Library, solo show
2002 Channing Gallery, solo show
2002 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, group show

Exhibition Curator
2004 Channing Gallery, solo show of a Philadelphia artist
2004 Channing Gallery, solo show of watercolors
2004 Channing Gallery, two-person show of painting and photography
2003 Channing Gallery, solo show of a local painter
2003 Frankenthaler Gallery, two-person show
2003 Channing Gallery, group show of 4 local painters
2003 Story Street Gallery, two-person show of paintings and works on paper

Work in the Collections of
Maria Brandt, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Caroline and Thomas Brandt Frederiksen, Birkerød, Denmark
Dr. Robert and Roberta Frankenthaler, Brookline, MA
Nadia and Reed Halstead, Boulder, CO
Sofie Erasmie-Käll and Ulf Käll, Lund, Sweden
Hanneke Vermeulen, Mechelen, Belgium
Private collection, New York, NY
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium
Private collection, Florence, Italy

Publications
artsMedia, January 2004, review by Rachel Strutt
Boston Globe, 9/26/02, Dropping In, by Jim Sullivan

Art Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Boston Visual School, summer program in Viterbo, Italy