I've been drawing since my teenage years as a way of quickly looking at and talking about the relationships I observe in the world, whether it be the streets we walk, the gardens we grow, or the people we love. This work expands from the desire to share open ended stories which come from my life, but could as easily come from yours.

Painting and mixed media have developed more recently and encourage the altering, erasing, and revisiting that occur in my work. I aim to connect with history in this process. Pouring over art books, I find artists, their centuries, lives, and work; their lovers, friends and family, who by the simplest of tools, might breach time and find their way collaged into spaces of this century and place. I respond to the tactility of materials in hand, the physicality of large spaces, and the combined spiritual and sensual nature of working from life.

Throughout history, people have made things as a way of joining together.  Collage mimics this process of connecting, paralleling the traditions of building, sewing, cooking, and adapting to the needs of family, handed down from one generation to another.  This tradition, found in my family as well, is built into the making of my art.

Coming from a large family, there's always been an abundance of emotion: the noise of the living and the dying, the heartbeat of people in close proximity. I look for the nuance of subject, the beauty and determination of the everyday, and the sense of time adding up, altering and becoming.

born:1961, Nashua, NH

education:

Brooklyn College, MFA in Drawing/Painting, 1986
University of New Hampshire, BFA in Drawing, 1984

selected awards/honors

Home Prize Winner, Attleboro Museum, 2009
1st Prize, Joan Dunfey Exhibition, 2008
Currier Award, NHAA Currier Exhibition, 2008
1st Prize, Parfitt Memorial Exhibition, 2007

selected publications

Beverly Arts Center of Chicago, Drawing the Line, WCA, Chicago, Illinois, p. 3, 20, 2010
NHAA 60th Annual Currier Exhibition, Manchester, NH, p. 2, 9, 2008
NHAA 57th Annual Currier Exhibition, Manchester, NH, p. 7, 2005
Drawing Upon, Sharon Arts, Peterborough, NH, p. 5-6, 1999

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery, New and Revisited Work, Portsmouth, NH, 2007
Framer's Market, Faces and Places, Bedford, NH, 2005
North CountryCenter for the Arts, Lincoln, NH, 2000
Both Sides Now, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, 1994

selected group shows

Drawing: Figure the Surface, Amherst St. Gallery, NHIA, Manchester, NH, 2011
Seeing Double, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2010
The BWAC Wide-Open Art Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
Drawing the Line, The JWAN National Juried Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 2010