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I paint and/or draw organic grids that are a simple material layering — an exploration of and through material. Within that material exploration is relationship — the relationship of line to line to color to shape to edge to skin, and viewer to an environment. I amass horizontal and vertical lines that position me in a landscape that subjectively explores social bundling as well as the emotional movement of wind on water. The landscape and how we view it places us, tells us who we are.
These drawings and paintings can also be seen as a build up of opposites. I find it most exciting when the opposites do not balance but coexist, when their resolution is a simultaneity - a this in conjunction with that. The act of painting tells a story and covers it up. The lines assert and deny narrative. I am interested in the repetitive line accumulating significance - the single gesture repeated into a flow of energy. A landscape that returns to a line and the line that references the whole as one of the imperfect individuals that accumulates to make up the group.
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2005 |
Artist Trust EDGE program |
1981 |
BFA, University of Washington |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
2009 |
Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Two Person Show |
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“5280”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Group Show, Jim McDonald, Curator |
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“High Line”, Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Drawing Survey |
2008 |
Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, Washington, Works on Paper |
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“Zero”, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Juried Show |
2006 |
Alchemy Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Solo Show |
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“The Water Show,” Metropolis Gallery,
Bremerton, Washington, Group Show |
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“Defining Freedom,” Eastern Washington
University, Cheney, Washington. Juried Show |
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“15 After the Edge”, Works Gallery,
Bellingham, Washington. Group Show |
2005 |
Chase Gallery, Spokane, Washington. Juried Show |
2003 |
Artemis Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Three Person Show |
2000 |
Oculus Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Works on Paper. Solo Show |
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Boomtown Café, Seattle, Washington. Solo Show |
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Oculus Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Two Person Show |
1999 |
Liner, H2K design, Seattle, Washington. Three Person Show |
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Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
Juried by Jon Tupper. |
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Arts West, Seattle, Washington. Two Person Show |
1998 |
7th Annual Juried Show, Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury,
Maryland, Dr. David Scott Juror. 2nd Place Award. |
1994 |
“Caw Crowed the Corbie”, Espresso
Roma, Seattle, Washington. Solo Show |
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“The Woven Proxy”, Italia Café and
Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Solo Show |
1992 |
International Women’s Day, environmental installations
on the grounds of Volunteer Park, Seattle, Washington. Sponsored
by Lilith’s Revenge. |
1991 |
“Belltown Inside /Out,” a group
show of current and past Belltown artists, Seattle, Washington. |
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“Homesweet,” a collaborative, interactive installation
on housing and homelessness within “Libratory” which
encompassed a collection of interactive projects that stemmed
from social issues. Bumbershoot, Seattle, Washington. Helen
Slade, Curator. |
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”Earthly Delights,” installations conceived from
goods and services available at BellevueSquare. Bellevue
Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington. Helen Slade, Curator. |
1989 |
“Civilization,” a project sponsored
by 911 and located within Belltown, Seattle, Washington.
Helen Slade, Curator. |
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“1989 Northwest Annual,” Center
on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington. Leon Golub and
Nancy Spero, Jurors |
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AWARDS and GRANTS |
Artist Trust Fellowship 2006 |
King County 2004 Purchase Award |
Ruth Chenven Foundation |
2nd Place, Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, Maryland,
Dr. David Scott Juror |
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COLLECTIONS |
KC Portable Works |
Dr. Gene and Lois Graham |
Edie Adams |
Bennet Krohn |
Neiman Marcus |
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