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Artist's Statement
Born in Brooklyn, NY., but raised in suburban/rural New Jersey. Fled the Northeast upon completion of high school. Graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with degree in Literature and studies in the arts and sciences. Also studied and performed modern dance.
Lived a number of years in San Francisco absorbing art and dancing, then
moved to the Pasadena, CA., area. Expanded horizons both with work in a
molecular biology lab and with travels to Mediterranean Europe, the British
Isles, Africa, China and Japan.
Influenced by the Craftsman tradition, I began expressing my visual,
physical and intellectual experiences through my lifelong interest in fabric
ten years ago, starting with a focus on nature and moving on to explore
motion, space, and time using the dance vocabulary and images from far space
and distant time. I have circled back to nature and find myself interweaving
these themes in my life and work.FABRIC: The pleasure of it for its own sake, infinite variety, texture, color, reflective qualities. The sensual appeal of silks, brocades, velvets, metallics, a never-ending palette.
PATTERN: From sense of place, West Coast, meeting ground of West (open space, strong contrasts, colors, definitions) and East asymmetric balance and harmony, space as entity, image pared down.)
STRUCTURE: Derived from dance: motion/stillness, tension/release. The objects caught in a still moment, surrounding space, defining it. Held together by mutual tension, perhaps about to break apart to reform another space, another tension.
I avoid working in a formulaic way, trying to develop each image
independently; however, works tend to arrange themselves into series of
interrelated pieces, series that I always consider open ended. Hence there
are Forgotten Cities, Live Sea Scrolls, Random Walks, and Tree
Trunks among others. All of the pieces are enclosed with fabric borders that relate
to the work as a whole and provide a scroll form to the finished work,
designed to hang with poles top and bottom. Within this timeless format
anything can happen, from the representational to the abstract, the gorgeous
to the strange.
Selected Group Exhibitions
''Tactile Architecture,'' 1996, '95, '92, Decatur House, Washington, DC
American Quilters Society Annual, Paducah, KY
''City Art,'' Los Angeles County Fairplex, CA
and many others
Awards
First Place, Fine Crafts at Matrix Gallery
Juror's Favorite, ''Tactile Architecture'' '95
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