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EXPERIENCES
Originally from Chicago, Illinois, I am a full-time resident of Boca Raton. I exhibit both paintings on canvas and paper, and three-dimensional gourds in shows and venues throughout Florida and nationally.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a fine artist: painter and sculptor. I use concepts of abstraction, cubism, and surrealism to explore the elusive qualities of time, energy, and storytelling. My artistic goal is to create seductive surfaces and provocative forms that involve the viewer in an emotional visual adventure, where they can discover new associations and meaning.
The materials and techniques I use enables me to invent unique images and narratives from my imagination. I title many of my artworks “Mindscapes”. My influences come from everywhere, other art forms, such as jazz music, the directness of child’ art, past experiences, and current situations, such as the environment or social situations. I want my vision to be fresh and direct, as the images one sees in a child’s artwork. I use primary and contrasting colors, moving lines, and overlapping shapes to produce dynamic patterns and intricate designs with opaque acrylic paint on paper and canvas, and third dimensional surfaces like the natural gourd.
EDUCATION
My studies include an undergraduate degree is from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and two post-graduate degrees from University of Illinois and Michigan State University. Teaching, designing educational materials, and directing advocacy programs have shaped the direction of my artwork, particularly the desire to involve the viewer in my artistic process.
AS AN ARTS EDUCATOR
Arts Education has been an important part of my career. As Associate Director at CEMREL, Inc. a national research and development laboratory, I created educational materials in the arts and directed the first Visual Art National Endowment for the Arts, Artist-In-Residence program. As Associate Professor, at Chicago State University, I taught visual art, and I as the Executive Director of the Illinois Alliance of Arts Education, I managed the activities of the advocacy organization, an outreach program of the Kennedy Center.
REPRESENTATION
Internet
Painted Vessel sand Paintings: https://www.artfulhome.com
Gallery
Boca Raton Museum Gift Store
Cornell Gallery, Delray Beach, Gift Store
Fischer Galleries, Richmond, MS, www.fischergalleries.com
Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg, www.Florida CraftArt.org
Organizations
Florida Artists Group, FLAG
Florida Watercolor Society, FWS, Signature Member
National Association of Women Artists, NAWA
National Association of Women Artists, FL Chapter, NAWAFL
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
I have received many awards and my artwork is in numerous private collections. In 2023 six paintings were featured at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Adobe Room, Ft. Lauderdale, sponsored by Business for the Arts of Broward, BBX, and 2024-2025 Spotlight, Women in the Visual Arts is exhibiting 7 artworks in the Showcase Invitational, Host Boca Imaging, Boca Raton, FL. Exhibiting professional since 2005 I have participated in Regional and National exhibitions, below are recent awards and prizes:
2024
Palm Beach Watercolor Society, BRIC gallery, Gestalt painting, Jurors Choice
The Visual Arts Center, 14th Biennial Exhibit, Punta Gorda, Substrate, painting, Merit Award
2023
BRIC gallery, PBW, Arial Landscape, painting, Second Place
Sugar Sand Gallery, PBW, Trickster, gourd vessel Juror’s Award,
Museum of Arts and Sciences, FLAG, Substrate, painting, Troemel Foundation Award
Nathan D. Rosen Gallery, WITVA, 4 Seasons, vessel, Certificate of Recognition
2022
Nathan D. Rosen Gallery, WITVA, Two Story with Sky Light, painting, First Prize
Nathan D. Rosen Gallery, WITVA, 4 Seasons, gourd vessel, First Prize
Palm Beach Watercolor Society Midnight New Moon, painting, Jurors Choice
BRIC gallery, PBW, Out of the Sketch Book, painting, Honorable Mention
Art Center of Coast Carolina, Hilton Head, Graphic Puzzle, vessel, Honorable Mention
2021
National Association of Women Artists, The Paths We Take, painting, Second Place
Turner Center for the Arts, FLAG, GO-Go, painting, Judges Choice Award
FloridaCrafts, Member Show, Target, painted gourd, Best of Show
Palm Beach Watercolor Society, Yeah, painting, Second Place
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