ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My current body of work (exclusively oil on panel) is based on nature, but not representative of it in a commonly approached way. Within my paintings, form is represented by color, without regard to mass. The temporal quality of the form represents a frozen moment in the life of nature, both animate and inanimate. I don’t work on location, but instead I choose to gather ideas based on my own experiences, as well as from friends’ travels and work in the studio. I work sketches out on paper first. I stop the time in a box, as my work takes place exclusively within an evenly proportioned square. After I recreate the sketch on the panel, frequently via grid work, I sit with it and work out color schemes for the painting; generally the color formats have no relation to the original natural form. Each color is relegated to its own shape on the panel, without any over-painting. After each color is laid in, I smooth out the brush-stokes in the wet paint so as to have as un-painterly a surface as possible, therefore each color will lie on the same plane.

SOLO / GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Mar Solo exhibit, The Jacob Sears Memorial Library, Quivet Neck, MA
2005 Mar Contributing artist for ArtSeen, Charity auction to benefit the AIDS Research Alliance, Los Angeles, CA
Mar Part of Visual Ground exhibit at the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Long Island, NY
2004 Jun Works shown with Søren Christensen, New Orleans, LA
May Group show at The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Nov Contributing artist for Cancer & Careers Charity Auction
May Dual artist exhibit with Left Bank Gallery, Orleans, MA
2001 Dec Contributing artist for ArtHeals Charity Auction to benefit the Twin Tower Orphan Fund
Oct Blue Raccoon solo show, Lambertville, NJ
1999 Oct Guest artist, Peter’s Valley show, Layton, NJ
Aug Shown with Riverside Studio, Pottersville, NJ

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The Chatham Bars Inn, Chatham, MA
The personal collection of the unfortunate author, Lemony Snicket

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 Nov/Dec Cape Cod View
July US Weekly
2005 October Real Simple
September Coastal Living Magazine
2003/04 Provincetown Arts
2003 October Coastal Living Magazine
May/June Coastal Living Magazine
Cottage Style (hardcover)
2002 June Country Living Magazine
2001 May Country Living Magazine
March Country Living Magazine