artist's statement

curriculum vitae

Artist's Statement

My sister’s stove drives me crazy. The knobs each have a picture next to them to indicate which burner they will turn on. The picture is nothing more than a rectangle divided into four smaller rectangles representing the four burners. Each picture has a circle in one of the four smaller rectangles; this circle has the job of describing which of the four burners will come on when the knob next to it is turned. My problem is that because the rectangle stands straight up, because it is not in perspective, I can never tell whether a circle in the top left rectangle represents the front left burner or the back left burner.

In a practical situation, such as trying to turn a burner on, this sort of incomplete or conflicting information from an image is a hindrance. Yet as much as those crazy little rectangles annoy me, their dizzying ambivalence is what I strive for in my paintings. I use visual elements (such as composition, color, texture, and sharpness of edges) to simultaneously create a landscape with space and air that you can almost walk into, and to emphasis the flatness of the surface. My goal is to create a flutter in the viewer’s eye between the three dimensional image and the flat image. The resulting painting becomes almost impossible to take in as a whole.

My latest body of work, which I refer to as my groundless landscapes, is only the most recent result of my study of perspective and its inability to be gained.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts 2002

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in affiliation with Tufts University

Studied traditional painting methods from Asia and the West with an academic focus on Asian Studies.

Exhibitions

Gallery artist   MPG   Boston, MA  2003 – 2004

Frances N. Roddy Competition   juror Howard Yezerski; Concord Art Association           Concord, MA  2002

Regional Exhibition   Arnot Art Museum  Elmira, NY  2002

New Art 2002   Honorable Mention; juror Alison Kemmerer;  MPG  Boston, MA

December Exhibition & Sale   School of the Museum of Fine Arts  Boston, MA  1999 – 2004

Uninterrupted   Solo show; See Gallery; School of the Museum of Fine Arts  2001

Boit   Award Recipient; competition and exhibition;  School of the Museum of Fine Arts  2000

New Paintings   Solo show; Melrose Public Library;   Melrose, MA  2000

Red   juried group show; Gallery 214; Montclair, NJ  2000

First Annual Open Studios   School of the Museum of Fine Arts  2000

Compelling Collected   juror Magdalena Compos Pons; Tufts University Gallery  Medford, MA  2000

Revelation for Revolution   juried group show; Revolving Museum  Boston, MA  2000

Blue   juried group show; Cambridge Art Association  Cambridge, MA  2000

Residencies

Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education  Townshend, VT  2002