People fill spaces with meaning and relationships. All the physical things that make up our life have a mythic or symbolic existence in our unconscious mind. So the paintings are about how the world resides within us; what's left with us.

In paint I can show my sense that things are not solid as they seem—that there is a slippery, mysterious nature to reality. Also the can paint show how different perspectives coexist, within individuals or between them, which can be contradictory, harmonious and/or oblivious to one another.

Like Fairfield Porter, I am fascinated in my immediate surroundings and family life. He observes those closest to them with a great deal of honesty, accuracy, and nuance. The economical and exacting portraits of Alice Neal also inspire me with all their humanity. I also admire Jane Freilicher as she describes the infinite view from her window so delicately in paint. Like these painters, I feel no subject is too small or ordinary when given full attention.

Most directly I feel connected to Pierre Bonnard who’s sensual and tender way of painting did not undermine his complex and penetrating look into his life. His very personal sense of the sublime always commingles with his boredom, angst, and sadness. Like Bonnard, I synthesize my world while painting. There is a sense with all these painters that they are letting the paint guide them, and in following learned what they needed to discover.

My recent paintings are about my daughter and my changed world with her. Like many others, I feel nothing has called on as much of me as becoming a mother. In early motherhood we are as vulnerable as a child again. Things are raw and precious. Also, the tougher more animalistic parts of being alive come to the surface. We are in touch with the driving forces and cycles of life, and how we are mostly a witness in this process.

EDUCATION

MFA 2003 Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA. 4.0 GPA
BA 1992 Hampshire College. Amherst, MA 3.85 GPA

WORK EXPERIENCE
2009-2010 LECTURER: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2007-2009 PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
2006-2007 LECTURER: Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
2006 PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR: Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta Campus.
ADJUNCT FACULTY: Georgia State University
2005 PART-TIME ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: Emory University. Atlanta, GA.
2004-2005 LECTURER OF THE ART DEPARTMENT: Spelman College. Atlanta, GA.
2004 PART-TIME ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART: Kennesaw State University.
2003 ADJUNCT FACULTY: Georgia State University.
2001-2002 GRADUATE TEACHER: Georgia State University. Instructor of record.
2001 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT: Georgia State University
1998-2001 ARTISTS’ ASSITANT: Professor Ralph Gilbert. Office manager and studio assistant
1998-2002 ASSISTANT TEACHER AND CLINIC SUPERVISOR: The Atlanta School of Massage.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Drawing I
Drawing II
2D Design
Life Drawing
Oil Painting
Watercolor Painting
Professional Practices

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

2007
GALA FUNDRAISER FOR MENNINGER PSYCHATRIC CLINIC: Paintings “Twilight,” ” Interior,” and “Winter” featured. Houston, TX.
OPEN STUDIO INVITATIONAL: Decatur Arts Alliance. Decatur, GA.
ALTANTA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH: Exhibition of archival prints. Atlanta, GA.
FULTON COUNTY PUBLIC ART REGISTRY: 2007 finalist and officially selected for registry.

2006
FIAT LUX: LIGHT AS A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON IN ART: National all-media Juried show. Juror: Stephen Bennett Phillips of the Phillips Collection.
CARPE DIEM: Juried exhibition. Decatur, GA
SMALL WORKS: SWAN COACH HOUSE GALLERY. Atlanta, GA.

2005
SOLO SHOW EMORY UNVERSITY: “Inside spaces” Visual arts gallery. Atlanta, GA.
FAY GOLD GALLERY: Group show, April. Atlanta, GA.
FIRST PLACE AWAR.D:NOW AND NOT YET: Juried exhibition. Juror: Laurie Hicks, High Museum of Art. Christ Church Presbyterian. Atlanta, GA.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE DALTON GALLERY:: Decatur fine arts festival, Juried exhibition. Decatur, GA.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA: Art market. Atlanta, GA.
ART PAPERS INVITATIONAL AUCTION. Mason Murer Gallery. Atlanta, GA.

2004
BY MY SELF: SELF-PORTRAITS BY EMERGING WOMEN ARTISTS. Sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Swan Coach House Gallery. Curated by Marianne Lambert. Atlanta, GA.
NORTHWEST CULTURAL COUNCIL’S ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION: SELF-PORTRAITS. Juror: William Thomas Chambers. Rolling Meadows, IL.
A SUMMER SHOW: Fay Gold Gallery. Atlanta, GA.
NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION ONLINE: Projekt 30 April-May.
HAMBIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. Group exhibition. Atlanta, GA.
SMALL WORKS: Fay Gold Gallery. Atlanta, GA.
HABERSHAM GARDEN CENTER: Art in the Garden. Atlanta, GA.

2003
SOLO SHOW: “BIRHTDAY PARTY” Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Atlanta, GA.
BEST OF SHOW AWARD: JURIED INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: ROSENTHAL INTERNATIONAL: University of North Carolina at Fayetteville, NC.
TOP 10 ART SHOWS OF THE YEAR: “BIRTHDAY PARTY” Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing Magazine.
INVITATION EXHIBITION UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SYSTEM Board of Regents headquarters. State Capitol. Atlanta, GA
SOLO SHOW: THE METROPOLITAN ATLANTA ARTS FUND EXHIBITION SERIES The Hurt Building.4th floor. Atlanta, GA
JURIED SOUTHEAST REGIONAL EXHIBITION: Atlanta Artists Center. Atlanta, GA.
JURIED STUDENT SHOW: Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.

2002
HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART JURIED EXHIBITION: “Art at Play” Huntsville, AL
UTRECHT ART AWARD, JURIED STUDENT SHOW. Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA
SECOND PLACE IN STATEWIDE JURIED SHOW. The Art Place/Mountain View. Marietta, GA
TUBE ART SPOT. Invitational exhibition “Software: the Vagina Show“ Atlanta, GA

2001
SOLO SHOW: “NEW WORK” Georgia State University/First Thursdays Atlanta. Atlanta, GA
TUBE ART SPOT “Peace, love and understanding” Atlanta, GA
JURIED STUDENT SHOW Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA

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