Artist Statement

My artwork is about investigating the boundaries between the natural landscape, the human world, and the interior landscape of memories and associations.

I begin with few preconceived ideas of what the finished work will look like, but with shapes, lines, and colors that evoke memories of natural and human-made landscapes. I work improvisationally, embracing accidents, guided by intuition and chance. I use materials that resist my control and move in unexpected directions, asserting themselves in the process. Shapes, colors, and relationships become areas of focus, then recede or are covered over; some are mysterious, surreal, or dreamlike, and provoke new cycles of memory and association. As the work develops, these ambiguous, mysterious, and intuitive aspects of the process contend with demands for order and resolution. Unresolved and ambiguous forms allow openings for viewers to enter the work and begin their own processes of creation.

The finished work is an artifact of a journey, its history apparent. What began with gestures towards the perceived world has been clouded by repeated upwellings of memories and associations, and the work points towards an interior, as much as an exterior, landscape.

Selected Exhibitions

“The Landscape Is Changing,” Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, 2025. Juror: Marci Rubin, Curator, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, Illinois.

“Great Northern Art Explosion,” AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, Michigan, 2024.

“COLOR,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2023. Juror: Ann Rintz, Curator, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, Grayslake, Illinois.

“61st Mid-States Art Exhibition,” Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana, 2022-2023. Juror: Heidi Strobel, Professor of Art History, University of North Texas.

“Everything Folds and Unfolds,” South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, Michigan, 2022 Juror: Jiangmei Wu, Associate Professor of Design, Indiana University.

“Michigan Fine Arts Competition,” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan, 2022. Juror: Marina Pacini, Chief Curator (retired), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

“Dune Birds in Art,” Indiana Dunes Visitor Center, Chesterton, Indiana, 2022. Juror:  Kristina Knowski.