Eagle Harbor Superfund site, etching, 5 × 6 inch plate
Making art is how I make sense of where and how I live, what it means in this culture, and how I think about what matters. My earliest and most enduring memories are of places I have loved. In my work as an artist, I return—again and again—to the question of what places mean. To me, to us; across history, in this moment.
Representing the landscapes of my daily life—clear cuts, housing developments, the Pacific Northwest wilderness—gives me a way to explore the oldest questions about the nature of the sacred and the profane. Represented landscapes of the American West in particular have deep associations with notions of manifest destiny and a certain strain of romanticism; I use the language of these traditions to present a clear-eyed view of where I live in all of its complexity.
I work primarily en plein air. For me, it’s an escape from language into the delight of visual and formal logic. Almost all of the work was made in Kitsap County in Washington state, where I have made my home, raised a family, and set down roots. I love this place and communities I am part of here—and my work is both a love letter and a reminder that we can choose how we change the places we inhabit.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Etched, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2009
Objective Images, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2007
Corporate Life, Shoreline Community College Gallery, Shoreline, Washington, 2004
Day Job, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2004
New Paintings, Adobe Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2004
Raw Land, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2007
Island Landscapes, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2000
American Landscapes, Bainbridge Performing Arts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2000,
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, 1998
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Numerous shows, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2007 to present
Play, Gallery One, Ellensburg, Washington, 2008
Unnatural World, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2008
TOY, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington, 2008
Homeland, College Art Gallery,Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington, 2000
Drawing from Perception III, juried by Rosemarie Beck, recipient of Juror’s Merit Award, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 2000
Seattle Printmakers, College Art Gallery, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington, 2000
Group Show, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 1999
Work from the Woolery Plant, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1998
M.F.A. Painting Group Show, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1997
National Small Print Exhibition, Communication Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1996
Northwest Women in Art, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon, 1996
The Land, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, 1995, juried by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Group Show, Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, Washington, 1995
EDUCATION
Indiana University, Master of Fine Arts in Painting
Additional focus on Printmaking
Bloomington, Indiana
Middlebury College, Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude
Double Major in Philosophy and Art History; High Departmental Honors in Art History
Middlebury, Vermont