Artist Statement
Clothing has the power to define and to categorize, to transform and to disguise, to reveal and to hide. It wields a power far greater than most of us realize. Our collective memories are stirred by a flash of fabric, the scratchiness of rough wool or the crunch of crinoline…spinning us back to the moments that mark our lives. I can think of no image more loaded with memories than a dress. How many of us can be brought back to that sense of place/time by the sight of a ruffle or swish of a skirt? How many moments are marked in our minds by the garments we wore?
In many ways, the dress paintings are portraits and at their very core, they are self-portraits. In the creating of a painting, it is almost impossible not to show one’s hand as well as one’s self.
My recent work deals with memory. Just as a gentle smell or sound can take us back, my hope is that these newest images will take the viewer on their own personal journeys conjuring up images long forgotten. Whether I am painting dresses or shoes or the flotsam and jetsam from my own memories, if I am successful, my work will call up thoughts, feelings or memories of things unremembered… leaving the artist, and at times the viewer, feeling just a little bit naked
Biography
MUSEUMS
ELEANOR D. WILSON MUSEUM at Hollins
University of Virginia July 2007, “VISIONS: CONTEMPORARY FEMALE ARTISTS”
COMPETITIONS
2008 Danforth Museum Member Show
Juror: Carol Anne Meehan
Frances Roddy Competition, Concord Art Association 2005,2006
2006 Juror: Howard Yezerski, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Juror: Katherine French, curator Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
South End Open Studios, Juried Space 2004, 2005
First Expressions Gallery, Boston: Invitational Show 2000
First Expressions Gallery, Boston:Juried Competition 1997,1998,1999
Annual Drawing Competition, SMFA 1996,1997
First Expressions Gallery, Boston:Juried Competition 1995,1996
PUBLICATIONS
ArtScope 7/2008
Boston Globe 3/23/2000
Arts Media, December 1996
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bellevue Research Inc,Cambridge, MA
Escada Retail Inc,Boston, MA
Medical Portfolio Mgt., LLC, Cambridge, MA
St. Regis Hotels, Atlanta, GA
Gaylord Entertainment Resorts,Nashville,TN
EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1991-1997
George Washington University, BA 1970-1974
GROUP SHOWS
2008 Gallery One, Nashville, TN: 3 person show, “In Minds Eye”
2007 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN Packages Large & Small
2007 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville,TN 2007 “Artists In Heat”
2007 Lanoue Fine Art, Boston, MA “VISIONS: Contemporary Female Artists”
2007 Lanoue Fine Art Boston, MA Group Show
2006 Etheringon Fine Art, Vineyard Haven Group Show
2005 Windsor Gallery, Dania,FLA Group Show
2003 Family Tree Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2003 Hanson Gallery, Wellfleet,MA: Group Show
2001 Artana Gallery, Framingham,MA: Group Show