Artist Statement
When I begin a painting, whether it's on a blank canvas or one covered with old newspapers picked up in my travels, rice paper, pieces of paper bags or thick splashes of paint, I have only a germ of an idea. That idea can come from something I've seen...somewhere I've been...a feeling or a thought. While my work is primarily abstract, a subject or story begins to reveal itself to me while I'm working. Often it is the "idea" that I started with, but sometimes the painting goes in a whole different direction. The painting is waiting for me to discover it.

I attack the canvas, and together the painting and I begin to "work it out." I'm interested in the hidden world beneath the surface - in layers of texture and color. I begin to dig and shape... to push and pull...often tearing the painting apart and reassembling it with other elements...old paintings, more paper, torn photographs, discarded bits from my wastebasket...whatever I feel it takes to create the finished piece.

I scribble imaginary shapes. I create a private alphabet. I apply paint and scratch it away with my fingernails or an old brush or alcohol. The whole process is very exciting - full of energy and emotion; and yet the principals of design are there fighting to be considered. In the end I have a painting that was begun in a highly emotional and intuitive state, tamed and controlled by the basic elements of organization and composition that provides a secret world...a provocative world...a rich sensual world to get lost and found in.

Resume

BORN Detroit, Michigan

EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Bachelor of Arts


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 "The Time Is Always Now" Milo Gallery, Los Angeles

2006 "Joan Tucker" HBO Corporate Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003 Art Night Out - Miracle Mile Gallery & Studio Tour, Los Angeles, CA

2000 "Works on Canvas" Gallery C, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 "Three Artists - Works on Paper" Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Real Abstraction" William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

"Paint - Print" I-5 Gallery, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA

"Works on Paper" Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA Juror - Laddie Dill

2002 Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Sales and Rental Gallery Group Show, Los Angeles, CA

"Wallworks" LA Art Core, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA

"Color Outside the Lines" Long Beach Art Association, Long Beach, CA Juror - Joan Hugo

2001 "Southern California Open" Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Juror - Christopher Miles, art critic "Art Forum"

"Solo" Studio 33 Group, SK Gallery, Venice, CA

"Art Heals" BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SOHO Art Gallery, Studio City, CA "18 Artists" Hollywood Digital, Hollywood, CA

Group Show, L. Nicole Gallery, Atlanta, GA

"Grit" Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA Juror - Lisa Wells, Kohn Turner Gallery

2000 Collage Artists of America, Viva Gallery, Northridge, CA Curator - George Herms

Studio 33 Group, SKG Gallery, Venice, CA

Village Studio, Malibu, CA

Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO

1999 18th Annual Christmas Show, Frank Romero Studio, Los Angeles, CA

"Drawn From Nature" Studio 33 Group, SKG Gallery, Venice, CA

"Southern California Open Regional Exhibition" Viva Gallery, Northridge, CA Juror - Scott Canty, Art Curator for The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept. at the LA Municipal Art Gallery and Director for the Cultural Affairs Dept. slide registry

"Southern California Regional Show" Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA Juror - Noel Korten, Curator/Director, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007 - Present Milo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004 - Present Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 - Present Mana Cultural Internacional, Vaalle De Bravo, Mexico

2002 - 2006 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000 Member, Gallery 825/LA Art Association, Los Angeles, CA

Member, Collage Artists of America

1975 - Present Professional Costume Designer/Stylist for television commercials, Los Angeles, New York, Worldwide


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bohnett Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Wells Fargo Bank, W. Los Angeles, CA

Mandaly Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Borgata Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ

Shutters Hotel, Santa Monica, CA

John Papanek, ESPN, NY

Susan Jonas Klein, Guggenheim Museum, NY

Dr. Susan Williams, Beverly Hills, CA

Ellen Bloom, HBO, Santa Monica, CA

Onyx Capital, Brentwood, CA

Candler Marketing, Denver, CO

Gearhead Entertainment, Vancouver, BC


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Ones To Watch" Water Color Magic Yearbook, Dec. 2003

"Torn Free" interview and article Tana's Habitat, Interviewer - Lora Hart

Interview, Los Angeles Independent Newspapers, Interviewer - Sergei Pianella

Interview, Santa Monica Bay Week, Interviewer - Jessica Overwise

Liquitex "Artist of the Month" December 2001