My work is driven by being alive on earth and the way paint moves and engages with the surface. I’m drawn to the tactile qualities of oil paint, spray paint, oil sticks, and acrylics and how they glide, blend, shift, and respond to one another. I use color intuitively, and work with translucency, opacity, light, line, and gesture to evoke a sense of presence and atmosphere. I reach back through my lineage to explore how my ancestors conjured hope while relegated to the boundaries of society. I trace my lived sensations through painting, and the paintings become vessels for ancestral memory, encoded in gesture.
The paintings are encounters with dreamlike realms - places of sanctuary and discovery. Within them are reflections, edges of gardens, forest pools and glens, and shadows cast by unseen forms. Through my process I seek to capture the transient essence of elements and place, observed, imagined and painted. A passing breeze, the curve of a stem, flight paths of birds and insects, or the way light bends through space. In this way, the paintings are a convergence of presence and perception.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Forthcoming solo: EYES IN THE FOREST, Chen Art Gallery,
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT
2025 ROOT SIGNAL, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University, Westfield MA
2024 MASS MOMA, TurnPark Art Space, Curated by LabSpace, West Stockbridge MA
2022 SUSPEND solo, Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity, Florence MA
2022 HOLIDAY, LabSpace, Hillsdale NY
2019 LAYERS, Red Light Gallery, Northampton MA
2017 WORKS, Readywipe Gallery, Holyoke MA
2015 ELEMENT POOL solo, Hampden Studio Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA
2014 CRYSTALLINE solo, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton MA
2013 SLOW LIGHT, Thornes, Northampton MA
2012 MIND and MATTER, Paper City Gallery, Holyoke MA
NATURE / NATURANS, Primo Piano Gallery, Lecce Italy
2009 PRESENT TENSE, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton MA
OUT of SIGHT, Wunderarts, Amherst MA
2004 PAINTINGS solo, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton MA
2002 EXCHANGE, Lowe Gallery, Hudson Guild NYC
MFA, Indiana University 1991
Skowhegan 1991
BS, Skidmore College 1986