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 ARTIST STATEMENT
I started my artistic career in the 1960’s at the Boston University School of Theatre where I designed costumes for the Tufts University Theatre, the Kennebunkport Opera Theatre, and the Charles Playhouse. After attempting to do the costumes for Doctor Faustus at the University of Oregon while parenting two toddlers, I postponed my artistic life. For the next 35 years I taught preschool, worked for Head Start, and then worked in higher education in parenting, early childhood education, and eventually found my calling in coordinating and teaching Women’s Studies. After retiring from 21 years at Clark College, I was then free to return to art.
I work primarily in acrylics and wood, but also explore pastels, inks, watercolors, and multimedia.
While I love trying new genres, such as monotypes, and water media, I always return to acrylics, where I can embed objects into the paint, use many mediums for different effects, and place my art in wooden boxes that I build to make sets for my paintings, typically done originally on canvas. I often add branches, figures, and other elements into the shadow box for a third dimension.
I am fascinated by the idea of the artist as a voyeur, peering into other lives, and the art of looking itself. I often have hidden messages about myself, and society, some are less hidden, as in my seven deadly sins. These paintings look somewhat humorously at sexism, racism, body image, greed, and other delights of modern culture.
I have shown in numerous group and solo shows in Portland, Newport, Tacoma, Spokane, and in online galleries. I have also been in five shows in South Korea and will be traveling to Vietnam to show in an international women’s exhibit in June of 2012. I received a grant from the regional arts council (RACC) to help me study art in Bangkok and Vietnam on this trip. My resumé is posted below and includes a list of the shows I have had work in.
I am very active in the Oregon chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art (OWCA) and regularly participate in OWCA group shows.
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You can view images of a book I made about my June 2011 trip to Korea available online at the Shutterfly website.
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Title: Going And Coming, oil/acrylic, framed 22x26, $375. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Women Hold Up Half The Sky; but sometimes they get tired, oil/acrylic, 23x29.5, framed 24.5x31, $650. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: The Natural World, mixed-media, 16x20, $125. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Barbie and Aladdin Do the Ball at Bougeval, mixed media, 24x31 box, $450. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Vertical Abstraction, mixed-media, framed 22x26, $650. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Bare Branches, oil/acrylic, framed 26x26, $250. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Cairo Coffeepot Cubed, oil/acrylic, framed 20x28, $450. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Cairo Coffeepot Squared, oil/acrylic, 16x20, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Here's Looking At You, monotype, 16x20, $175. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Temptation, oil/acrylic, framed 22x26, $675. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Abstract I, watercolor, 16x20, $175 Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Abstract II, watercolor, 16x20, $175. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Wild Landscape, oil/acrylic, framed 22x26, $475. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Wildness, oil/acrylic, framed 16x20, $350. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Dreaming in Eden, watercolor, framed 31x42, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Man in a Window: the Artist as Voyeur, mixed-media, 29x40 box with light and curtain, $700. Click the image to contact the artist.
Title: Sauvies Island Fields, oil/acrylic, 20x25, framed 22x28, $425. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Sauvies Island Fields II, oil/acrylic, 11x14, in gold frame 13.5x16.5, $225. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Beaverton Market Colors, oil/acrylic, 11x14, gold frame 13.5x16.5, $175. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Beaverton Market Onions, oil/acrylic, 11x14, gold frame 13.5x16.5, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Big Bang Theory, mixed-media, four 12x12 panels, 25x25 as hung$900. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Billie and Me, oil/acrylic, 33x34, $800. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Columbia River at Rooster Rock, oil/acrylic, 18x24, framed 20x26, $425. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: If I Were An Iris, mixed-media, in shadowbox 24x32x3.5, $700. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Peace Like a River, mixed-media, in shadowbox 22x28x3.5, $700. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: St. Johns Bridge, oil/acrylic, 12x16.5, framed 15x19, $140. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: St. Johns Bridge: The Wild Side, oil/acrylic, 18x24, framed 20x26, $425. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Shadows of Self: Parts of the Whole, oil/acrylic, 30x40, $800. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Shadows of Self: Bird And Wheel, oil/acrylic, 28x49, wall hanging, $600. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Shadows of Self: Into the Fire, oil/acrylic, 30x40, framed/silver 32x42, $800. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Elephant and Pig, in Memoriam, mixed-media, 14x20, matted and framed 20x26, $250. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: In the Distance: Green, oil/acrylic, 23x23, framed 24x24x2.5, $350. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Woman at a Desk 1, oil/acrylic, framed 18x28, $425. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Woman at a Desk 2, oil/acrylic, framed 18x28, $375. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Love at Ground Zero, mixed-media, framed 23x27.5, $900. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Envy, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Pride, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Gluttony, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Greed, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Greed (detail), mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Lust, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Lust (detail), mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Wrath, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Wrath (detail), mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Sloth, mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Sloth (detail), mixed-media, 12x12, framed 15x15. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Meghan, watercolor, matted and framed 18x24, $175. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Splash, oil/acrylic, matted and framed 16x20, $125. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Totem Figure, oil/acrylic, matted and framed monotype 18x24, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Trio, oil/acrylic, matted and framed monotype 18x24, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Woman in a Cave, oil/acrylic, 18x24 in shadowbox, $500. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Tree Woman Tree, oil/acrylic, 18x24, framed 21x27, $350. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Print Creature, mixed-media, matted and framed 12x12, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Hanging by a Thread, mixed-media, framed 15x15 box, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: String Theory, mixed-media, framed 15x15 box, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: String You Along, mixed-media, framed 15x15 box, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
Title: Threads of Time, mixed-media, ramed 15x15 box, $150. Click on any image to contact the artist directly.
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2012 EXHIBITS
April
Group Show, “The World of Women” at Doll Gardner Gallery at West Hills Unitarian Fellowship 8470 SW Oleson Road. Show runs through May 4th. Hours are listed on the gallery’s website.
COMMA Salon, SPA Wine Gallery 1126 SW Morrison Ave., Portland, 503-241-6500, Solo show for April and May. First Thursday openings both months from 5-8.
Geezer Gallery special fundraiser art show at the Poster Garden, 630 NW 14th Ave in the Pearl District. Invitational gala Friday, April 13th 6-9, open for all Saturday 10-4.
First Unitarian Church Art Fair, April 20, 21, 22. Friday evening gala and opening reception, Saturday from 10-6:30, Sunday from 10-2; at 12th and SW Main in downtown Portland.
May
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral “Artists Among Us” group art show. Opens May 11th for gala, free showings Saturday 10-4, Sunday 9-4.
Village Gallery of Arts May 2012 Art Challenge Show opens May 1 through June 1. Opening reception Saturday May 5, 10-4, gallery located at 12505 NW Cornell Road in Portland. Gallery hours Tue-Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4.
June
First Unitarian Church Art Wall group show, every Sunday through July 29th and by appointment on other days.
International Women’s Art Exhibit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 21-28.
September
OWCA Group show at the Singer Hill Café in Oregon City.
PRIOR 2012 EXHIBITS
January
Group Exhibit Evolve Gallery at 100th Monkey Art Studio. Opening reception was held on Friday, January 6.
Geezer Gallery group show. First Friday opened on January 6th from 6-9 in Multnomah Village, in the Loaves and Fishes Building.
February
OWCA group show on Sensuality at Geezer Gallery. First Friday opened on February 3rd.
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