Artist Statement
I work intuitively in my art and find that I am drawn to many mediums. With each medium, I explore in a different manner and with a different process – that interstitial space between idea and object. I am fascinated by process, especially those that include elements of chance and the unknown. In the unknown I lose the analytical aspects of myself and learn to accept and make peace with the accidental, unplanned, and the serendipitous.
In photography I either use the auto-focus feature or attempt to focus manually, risking that either means will capture the image I desire. In printmaking, I use intaglio techniques because the outcome of the acid etching process remains uncertain until I make a print from the plate. Even in drawing I take a chance on whether or not I am having a good drawing day.
My artworks in portraiture embrace self-portrait works, portraits without faces, and figural abstractions. Portraits uncover the hidden, revealing the masked or unknown aspects of self. In art, the unknown sustains me. Through the process of transforming materials, I transform myself. In working with these processes, I separate from my analytical self to be with the unknown and to revel in those undetermined outcomes.
Compression
Charcoal on paper
18 x 24 inches
2016
Tension
Charcoal on paper
18 x 24 inches
2016
Group Exhibitions
2018 Coadunation, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
(Juror: Randy Pijoan, artist)
2018 First Friday Art Hop, The Crane Building, Alamosa, CO
2018 Pizza and a Prize, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2017 The Sandhill Review, Adams State University Art and Literary Magazine, Fall Edition
2017 First Friday Art Hop, San Luis Valley Museum,
Alamosa, CO
2017 Creede National Small Print Show 2017, Creede Arts Council, Creede, CO
(Juror: Charles Ewing, artist) (catalogue)
2017 The Clear Conscience, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
(Juror: Sharon McCoy, artist)
2017 Monumental Landscapes: Imaging Ghost Ranch, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2017 Pizza and a Prize, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2016 First Friday Art Hop, First Methodist Church,
Alamosa, CO
2016 Summer Studios, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
2016 Unknown, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
(Juror: Sharon McCoy, artist)
2015 The Eclectics, Hatfield Gallery, Alamosa, CO
(Juror: Steven Quiller, artist)