education
Northwestern University
Masters of Fine Arts
1988
Ford Foundation Integrated Arts Fellowship Recipient
Teaching Assistantship
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in
Studio Arts
1985
College Honors and Departmental Distinction
Faculty
Citation
for Excellence
artist's statement
I think of my work as mental landscapes; visualizations of
different
states of mind.
The work
explores the necessity
of dealing with doubt inherent
in the human condition,
often
a result of
conflicting experiences
of everyday life and the
conclusions drawn
from
them. This conflict is
expressed by
the use of visual contrasts, such as organic
shapes
playing
off more geometric
shapes (natural vs. man-made) or the
juxtaposition
of differing
painting styles, i.e. a smoother,
calmer surface against a
more agitated,
textural surface
(differing states of mind). Ambiguities
in
figure/ground
relationships
express a fluctuating
perception of reality.
This
use of contrasts
emphasizes the "circumstantial perception"
that
alters what we find to be the truth. That these
differing
parts somehow congeal into a cohesive
whole is againa parallel
to the many contrasting
facets of ourselves as individuals.
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