Artist's Statement
As a landscape painter, I depict moments in which the scene establishes an emotional rapport with the viewer. Whether the viewer is excited by light against a facade, a dark and strange tree, or a sliver of sky, I am searching for the instance where the viewer unexpectedly personifies the environment. Sometimes a random set of items, such as houses, roadway, and greenery, react together to form an evocative tone. The tone produced may be sadness, brightness, pride, or resignation, but these locations have a personality in and of themselves. Where the paintings are most successful, the artwork captures the imagined traits of the environment and translates the artist's relationship to the site.
My aesthetic sense is informed by American artists Hopper, Diebenkorn, Bechtle, and Thiebaud. To me, their works portray a great range of urban and rural moods, and stimulate the viewer to consider if the mood presented reflects his or her own experience. My own sense of the environments in which I paint is that there is often a determination to exist within whatever beauty can be attained that day, even if it is only attained in a painted picture.
Selected Exhibits
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - Solo
2003 Mendocino Scenes, Castro Computer, San Francisco, California.
2003 Oil Paintings , Infusion, San Francisco, California.
1998-2001 Annual Holiday Landscape Show, Artist's Studio, San Francisco, California.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - Group
2003 New Watercolors, Kumquat, San Francisco, California.
2003 Mendocino Plein Air Painters, Highlight Gallery, Mendocino, California.
2003 New Oils, Hama, Los Angeles, California.
2002 Holiday Exhibition, Mendocino Village Artist's Gallery, Mendocino, California.
2002 Resident's Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
2002 Open Studios, San Francisco, California.
2002 Resurfacing, Fine Arts Du Jour, Santa Francisco, California
2002 The American Landscape, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, California
2002 Landscape II, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
2002 Fresh Paint, Emeryville, California
2001 Open Studios, San Francisco, California.
2001 Salons for Our Imagination, San Rafael, California.
2000 Open Studios, San Francisco, California.
2000 Two Landscape Artists, Kumquat, San Francisco, California.
1999 24Seven, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1999 Open Studios, San Francisco, California.
1999 Landscapes, Kumquat, San Francisco, California.
1998 Loss and Grief, WomanMade Gallery, Chicago.
1998 Open Studios, San Francisco, California.
1997 Studio Valencia, San Francisco, California.
1996 Michael Barry Gallery, San Francisco, California.
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