About Work

My work explores interstitial moments – things one sees out of the corner of one's eye, on the peripheries of the frame and in an instant. I am interested in the suggestive nature of media itself (whether oil/acrlyic paint or video) and its relation to perception (view work).

Several works explore the car as mediator of passing landscapes and human interaction. In this, the car acts as both frame (how people construct their understanding of the environment) and reference (as a projection of identity or memory).

Other works concern the ways in which direct experience of complex spaces (whether landscape or cityscape) confounds perception. It is in the throwaway moments of something half glimpsed that a kind of oppositional and imaginative space opens, one that disturbs ordinary meaning.

I am currently using acrlyic on gessoed paper, but have also worked with experimental video and interactive technologies.

Bio

My work has been exhibited in New York City and the Tucson area, including in 2009 at a juried exhibition at the Dinnerware Gallery and more recently in a solo show at Rancho Linda Vista, a benefit exhibit for Visual AIDS in NYC and How Brown Am I at Raices Taller in Tucson.

In 2001, I received an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, where I studied with Alyson Shotz, Sawad Brooks, Beth Stryker and Chris Kirwan.

I also accumulated 30 credits in political anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, under the advisement of Gerald Sider and Kirk Dombrowski.

In the 1980s, I studied painting with Frederik Thursz and Howard Hussey at the New York Studio School and, before that, earned a B.A. with a studio art major and English literature minor at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

After living and working in New York City closets for some 20 odd years, I moved with my husband onto an old adobe ranch in southern Arizona in 2003, where there is now ample room to paint.

Other involvements include teaching at Pima Community College and, before that, at Parsons and and ASU. I have also developed plans and exhibitions for museums and the like (see related projects).