Biographical Information:
Artist Statement:
Although my formal education focused on literature and science, I have always also been a “student” of the visual and tactile world. I seem to be in search of the foundations of life that are usually outside daily awareness—the whole ecosystem within a canyon, for instance, the energy drive of growing plants, the workings of a brain that is conscious, the incredible journey of evolution that created homo sapiens, the alien-to-us perceptions of creatures who live despite enormous challenge--so much movement in an ever-changing reality. Exploring what I could do with the three dimensions of clay over eleven years in a community studio, I’ve found a peaceful wellspring of purpose and discovery. It’s fascinating how a personality can be revealed wordlessly, through one’s hands; how clay sculpture can be a manifestation of a searching interior life. We can make our questions into forms. Beauty can emerge from mud.
Juried Group Exhibitions since 2014
Descanso Gardens Sturt Haaga Gallery
McGroarty Arts Center
McGinty’s Gallery at the End of the World
Las Laguna Art Gallery Online Exhibit
Pasadena Society of Artists Online Exhibition
San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center Online Exhibit
Whites Fine Art Gallery
Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center Gallery
Sierra Madre Creative Arts Group Gallery
Art Fairs
La Canada Community Center Holiday and Spring Ceramic Sales
Open Studios Alta/PasaDena
Affiliations
International Ceramic Artists Network
Pasadena Society of Artists
Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Arizona
B.A. Biology, magna cum laude, Wesleyan University
