Welcome to my long overdue website. I'm not sure how much I'll be updating the blog, but we'll see....one step at a time!
My sculptural ceramic work reflects an ongoing preoccupation with the nature of transience, particularly as it relates to beauty. I am interested in the subtle, quiet, easily overlooked aspects of beauty that are revealed only through careful observation...through "noticing". My aim is to draw the viewer in close, to invite a moment of pause and reflection and ultimately, to cultivate a deeper way of seeing. As an artist, I am drawn to the idea that a moment, otherwise lost, might somehow be captured and expressed through image and form. My creative process is fueled by the challenging pursuit of this goal, and yet I am constantly reminded of a frustrating paradox...it is the bittersweet awareness of transience that gives beauty (and life itself) such profound meaning.
Exhibitions
Solo
2023 - "Lost/Found - 2020-2022", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona January 13 - March 5
2010 - Featured Artist, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, May 1-31
2008 - Featured Artist, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 1-30
Group
2024 - "The Exotic Sublime - On Plants", Tohono Chul Gallery, August 22 - November 3
"10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, March 9 - May 26
2023 - "10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, March 1 - May 29
2022 - "All Fired Up" - Invitational Survey of Arizona Ceramists, August 25 - November 9
2022 - "The Element - Fire" - Tohono Chul Gallery, August 25 - November 9
2021 - "Encompassing Arizona", Tohono Chul Gallery, October 21, 2020 - summer, 2021
2020 - "Picturing 2020: A Community Reflects", The University of Arizona Museum of Art,
September 26 - March 28, 2021
"On the Desert: the Discovery and Invention of Color", Tohono Chul Gallery, August 5 -
October 20
2019 - "10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, October 5 -
December 22
"If It Doesn't Have a Hole, It's a Bowl/Art Planters for Plant People", Tohono Chul Gallery,
August 30 - November 6
2018 - "10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, October 5 -
December 16
"If It Doesn't Have a Hole, It's a Bowl/Art Planters for Plant People", Tohono Chul Gallery,
August 23 - November 27
2017 - "10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 10 -
December 17
"Desert Corridors", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 16 - February 7
2016 - "10 x 10" - Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 8 -
December 18
"Sonoran Symbiosis", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 10 - February 8, 2017
2015 - "Taking Flight - Birds in Art", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 13 - February 14,
2016
2014 - "The Tree: Myth, Symbol and Metaphor", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, November 14 -
January 15, 2015
"From the Earth", National Juried Exhibition, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, Arizona, March
14 - April 20
2009 - "Contemporary Crafts: Baskets, Bowls, Boxes and Bags", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson,
Arizona, June 3 - July 13
2006 - "For the Birds", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, May 25 - August 20
"Surface Intrique", Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, January 12 - March 26
Education
BS Psychology, University of Texas at Tyler, 1980