Artist Bio
I received my BFA and MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. My thesis was "Kviatkev, the Understanding of Abstraction." I have been drawing since age 4. My background is a BFA and an MFA in painting with minors in ceramics, design, and printmaking. I began my career from 1976 to 1991 and during the dormant years, from 1991 to 2021 I still painted but did not exhibit. Tumultuous times but healing times. During the isolation of COVID, I began to paint again and found a genuine newness and expression in my work. I follow T. S. Elliot’s Objective Correlative. This is a means of expressing emotion in art by using either a set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events. Through this method, the painting becomes that emotion. My style leans towards abstract painting because it supplies the necessary tools to allow the portrayal of thoughts and emotions in work. In my work, I do not dictate the emotion found in my paintings; but leave it for the viewer’s discovery and interpretation. This work subjective in nature, utilizes color to illustrate feelings, and dreams, and with each piece, there is an underlying core of darkness and a definite area of light. This draws the eye over the piece to the core. The lines keep the eyes moving, while the dots scream, “Look at me”. The work ranges in size from small works on paper to 48x48 inches on canvas. With each piece, there is an underlying core of what could be construed as darkness and a definite area of lightness.” The exchange between colors, lines, and shapes tells my story.