ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The medium of woodcut has long interested me for its utter simplicity, stark directness, and power to convey rich darks and contrasts of color. I have experimented with this form of printmaking for a long time, progressing from book-size images to more monumental scale. The current prints are modular in nature, the images cut from a series of square blocks of wood. These blocks are then printed in various permutations and different colors, some combined with the addition of antique metal type.
The subject matter of the woodcuts is anchored in the idea of theme and variation. They continue a direction my work has been taking since 1972: the creation of quasi-geological, personal “landscape,” a terrain of fault lines and chasms, granite and northern forest. I cut and printed each work by hand at the Peregrine Press studio in Portland.
BRIEF RESUME
Selected Exhibitions
- 2006—2007, Maine Print Project, at Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport;
Maine Statehouse, Augusta; Reed Gallery, UMaine Presque Isle; Saco Museum, Saco - 2004 "Attachements", Solo show of chine collés and string at
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME - Solo Exhibit Woodcuts, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio GalleryNorthampton, MA
- 2002 Peregrine Press Group Show, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine
- 2001 Homage,Solo Exhibit, Woodcuts & Drawings, JuneFitzpatrickGallery Portland
- 2001 Peregrine Press Group Show, Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library, Portland
- 2000 Peregrine Press Group Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
- 1998 Peregrine Press Group Show, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
- 1995 "A Plethora of Prints," Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
- 1994 "The Red Figure," Mercer Community College Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ
- 1993 Bennington College, Usdan Gallery, group show
- Icon Gallery, Brunswick, Maine, group show
Education
- A.B., Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Study with Leonard Baskin
- M.A.T. Art History and Fine Arts, Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Post-Graduate Study with: Jack Coughlin, John Townsend, Panos Ghikas, Deborah
Cornell,
Catherine Kernan, Mark Zunino, Liz Chalfin.
Employment
- Executive Director, Maine Humanities Council, Portland, Maine; 1985-2007
- Art Teacher, University of Southern Maine, University of Maine in Augusta,
New Hampshire College, Bates College, Bowdoin College,
York County Community College, l972-l982. - Printmaker and Graphic Artist, Touring Artist Program, supported by the Maine
Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.