Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1 Media: Digital Media Artist Statement : In this composition, I aimed to honor Bernardo Cavallino's Saint Celelia. Cavallino created over twenty "portraits" of solitary, religious, and symbolic individuals, according to the MFA website. Five of these pieces, which feature musicians, including three of their patron saints, Cecilia, demonstrate the allure of music as a motif. Cavallino emphasized the composition's drama through the use of light and shadow, just like many other artists of the time. His deft rendering of Cecilia's crimson gown fading into the background gives the music emanating from her violin a poetic and visually arresting quality. My goal was to photograph a comparable composition that had a distinct meaning and value. Because Saint Celelia is a saint, she appears in Catholic iconography. However, based on how I see this artwork, I think this woman is a person who has made many sacrifices to develop a talent. The way she gracefully plays her fiddle with such a dispassionate tone tells me the story of an in
Dimensions: 10 x 12.25 Media: 2H-6B graphite pencils Artist Statement : This artwork was based on an image I had taken in New Orleans through the window of an abandoned house. When I peered inside, sunlight was streaming through the cracked and smudged windows, creating a fascinating range of value contrasts on the old piano. This diversity eventually inspired me to use it as a reference photo for my artwork.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : On my last evening on Monhegan Island I started this painting. Audrey came over to see me painting. On her tenth birthday, she chose to come to Maine. She was from San Francisco.
Dimensions: 42 x 38 Media: Acrylic Artist Statement : Pillows as Symbols: Each pillow represents an individual life or memory, floating in a dreamlike space. The way they lean on and support each other symbolizes how lives, thoughts, or emotions are interconnected. The presence of both light and shadow represents the duality inherent in life - joy and sorrow, hope and fear, clarity and mystery. The connection between these two elements illustrates how one cannot exist without the other, emphasizing the balance between contrasting forces.
Dimensions: 24 x 20 Media: 16x20 inch archival print of digital photograph Artist Statement : The promise of this and future summers beckon from beyond the keyhole of the door of a historic building that used to belong to my family and was opened by many generations of relatives long gone.
Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 1 Media: Acrylic Artist Statement : This anonymous woman (no, it is not Maya Angelou, though it looks much like her!) is the quintessential grandmother and family matriarch. Particularly, she reminds me of the many heroic Baltimore City grandmas, great-grandmas, nanas and aunties who I have met during my decades in this city - keeping watch over the block from their porch, sweeping the sidewalk and the curb, keeping a freezer full of popsicles for every child in the neighborhood, braiding hair in the kitchen, and walking children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and anyone else who needs to come along to school every day. The subtle overlay of a doily pattern reminds us that everything will be tidy and ready for company at all times.
Dimensions: 20 x 32 x 1.5 Media: Digital Vector Image inarchival inks on aluminum plate Artist Statement : My ideas come from deep sensory experience filtered by emotional, rational, and spiritual notions. Giving an idea with no substance a material expression is a wonder.
Once made, the work is the clearest and only truth of the idea. It is a visceral trigger opening the viewer to their own experience. My pieces are portals, invitations to consider the living fullness surrounding us.
My fascination is in the interplay of the senses, the quickening of emotions as work proceeds, the inevitability of geometric ratios, the deep awareness Metaphor creates.
My creative energies have become a celebrations of living within The Creative Energy. As a summary, I understand that what I make, comes from that which does not appear.
Finally, I offer my Visual Music as a place to stand, "See the Music, Hear the Colors, Feel the Space” At the root of my current work is a fascination with Light and Sound, frequency and interference and how to show it. My work depicts how those attributes can be seen.
Dimensions: 18 x 30 x 0.125 Media: Palette Knife Oil Artist Statement : Loosely painted using a knife to show the steep contrast of times on the Susquehanna River. Deep shadows, dotted with sporadic shafts of light in the foreground contrast the river itself which has a glow against the distant bridges and hillsides.
Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5 Media: Acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped canvas Artist Statement : My paintings are in the Abstract Expressionist style. I paint with emphasis on color and mood. My works are non-representational, and the designs are not planned, so each piece evolves as color and shape and assumes its own character. The viewer is then free to experience the paintings intuitively without a prescribed subject or focus. My aim is to make forms and color evocative, experiential, and capable of eliciting emotion and mood.
Painted during the pandemic, "Where To?" reflects the confusion and fear experienced by so many people.
Dimensions: 11 x 11 x 1.5 Media: Photography Artist Statement : Fortitude is a series of impromptu driftwood beach huts along the California coast. The erosion of driftwood from both found and natural materials possesses a sense of familiarity and security; offset precarious uncertainty. Fortitude is a portmanteau of Fort and Attitude, and a word describing the resilience required to seek and sustain shelter on this entropic planet. The collective history of driftwood ranges from fallen trees, fire fodder, and spent lumber; illustrating which pieces were washed out and up as unadulterated trees with original knots, displaced by a fire with lingering charcoal pattern, or lumbered with proper right angles; only to fall into disrepair, washed away into the ocean, and washed back to shore with the rest of the driftwood. Fortitude invites viewers to experience, empathize, and engage with their environment; reflecting on what is considered natural in an increasingly mediated world.
Dimensions: 11 x 11 x 1.5 Media: Photography Artist Statement : Forged Fodder is from Tree Portraits, a series of images of trees strikeing a pose that reveals their character and the life lessons that made them.
Dimensions: 5 x 7 Media: Acrylic on canvas board Artist Statement : In this painting I was able to execute an unusual juxtaposition of two different objects.
Dimensions: 27 x 15 Media: Pen and Ink with Circle Technique on Illustration Board Artist Statement : This is another drawing honoring Nancy, an African elephant, who lived at the National Zoo. I enjoy developing unique compositions stressing positive/negative relationships.
