ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My work is inspired by mapmaking as a system to explore idiosyncratic personal spaces. I am interested in the rich interplay between memories and our knowledge of place, particularly how they come together to form a visual narrative, a map of our life through sensing and knowing. I look for the uncertainties, the particulars of place and memory buried, obscured, and recovered by a long process of layering and editing in ink and paint.
The prints above are monotypes, created by applying ink to plexiglass plates and then manipulating those plates through various techniques
so that a growing vocabulary of imagery can slowly evolve. Monotype printmaking by its nature is a loose, painterly process. In this way, it affords me a beautiful segue between my work in print and in painting. I apply similar image making processes to both, such as stenciling, collaging, using brayers or squeegies to create semi-opaque fields of color that conceal most of the history beneath the visible mappings.
As I work, I pose this question to myself: Can memories of a place be stripped to only a sensory language- color, texture, line - leaving
just the implication of signs left for direction?
BRIEF RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
- 2004 Off the Map, Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2004
- Destination: Biscay, Backroads Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine.
- Patricia Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
- Peregrine Press Group Show: In Small Print, Aucocisco at the Eastland Park, Portland, Maine.
- 2003
- Patricia Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
- MFA Graduate Exhibition, T. W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier,Vermont.
- Peregrine Press Group Show, Aucocisco at the Eastland Park, Portland, Maine.
- 1st Annual Maine College of Art Group Show, Gallery on Chase Hill, Kennebunkport, Maine.
- 2002
- Gallery 7, Portland, Maine.
- Peregrine Press Group Show, Aucocisco at the Eastland Park, Portland, Maine.
- 2001
- Art of the Print, Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine
- Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Gallery 7, Portland, Maine.
- Art and Soul Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine.
Awards
- 1999 Florence Leif Merit Scholarship Award, Maine College of Art
Education
- 2003 Master of Fine Arts, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont.
- 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine.
- 1988 Bachelor of Arts, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.