My work is about the deep psychological and physical responses people have to motion. I create images that tap into the rich vein that lies between our dreams of flying and our nightmares of falling out of control.
My paintings hover somewhere along the invisible line of tension between awkwardness and grace. I strive to capture the frozen moment in which balance is either lost or regained. I tend to avoid faces because they give too much away. I want to leave more for the viewer to interpret. Is a figure filled with the elation of soaring? Or is there a violence bubbling just beneath the veneer of beauty? What are those secrets behind the beauty? It all depends on what we bring of ourselves to the viewing.
I often break my figures up into multi-canvas construction of varying depths in an attempt to contain aspects of the image- much in the same way that each of us tries to impose some kind of structure on the chaos of our lives. But that structure, as hard-edged as we try to make it, is an illusion. It distorts the picture we present of ourselves in ways that can be both flattering and grotesque.
But the truth is that, like the figures I paint, we are all bodies in motion, flowing around and over the rigid boundaries we try to erect. Life is not so easily contained. This is not such a bad thing.
Exhibitions
The deYoung Museum, “The de Young Open Exhibition,” San Francisco, Oct. 2020
Lois Lambert Gallery, “Soaring, Stumbling and Surrendering” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, Ca, November 2018
Bg Gallery/Glass Garage, “Spectrum Gestalt 2”,Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, Ca August 2015
Glass Garage Gallery, “ Grayscale Wonderland” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, Ca, February 2015
JEFF, Anniversary Show, San Francisco, Ca, June 2015
NTropic, San Francisco, CA, July 2014
Triton Museum, California Painter competition. Honorable mention, 2014
ARC Gallery, "Choice" curator Catherine Clark, San Francisco, Ca, 2013-2014
Art Attack, Group show, San Francisco, Ca 2013
Northern Exposure, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, Ca, 2013
United Care Show, Curated Chris Hambrick, Los Angeles, Ca 2012
Sylvia White Gallery, Collectors Choice, Ventura, Ca 2011
JK Gallery, Solo Show, Culver City, California, 2008
Palos Verdes Arts Center, Three Person Show, Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca., 2008
Long Beach Arts, “The Human Figure” Long Beach, Ca Juror: Bob Alderette, 2007
La Artcore Brewery Annex, “ Courage”, Los Angeles, California, 2006
Arena One Gallery, “A Women’s Place is…” Santa Monica, California, 2006
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sales Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca., 2005
Mar Vista Arts Guild, “Beginnings”, Los Angeles, California, 2005
Richard Kraft Gallery, “Caught”, Los Angeles, California, 2005
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, “Open Call”, Los Angeles, California, 2004
Pacific Palisades Art Guild, “Garden Party”, Pacific Palisades, California, 2004
Don O’Melveny Gallery, “Abstract Elegante’ “, West Hollywood, California, 2004
Richard Kraft Gallery, “Eclectic”, Los Angeles, California, 2003
Don O’Melveny Gallery, “Small Wonders”, West Hollywood, California, 2003
Publications and Press
Eye on LA, ABC TV, April 2006
Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, March 2006
California Home and Design, July 2005
Abstract Elegante’, September 2004
Corporate and Private Collections
Arnold Worldwide, Santa Monica, California
Levine, Neal, Bender, Brill and Rankin, Century City, California
Mr. And Mrs. Les Traub, Beverly Hills, California
Mr. And Mrs. Irwin Yablans, West Hollywood, CA
Dr. Peter Lu, Beverly Hills, California
Audrey Wu, Los Angeles, California
Body Reform, Beverly Hills California
Education
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising - AA degree
Major: Fashion Design
Life
Married with two of the cutest adopted boys you have ever seen.