My work is driven by the natural world, and in many respects by how we experience it. I see my work as pictures about juxtaposition -- of things to other things, of us to the world around us.
I’m interested in how we relate to the world, the outer spaces we take in. I use landscape as the entry for the work. Sky, land, water, place. I’m drawn to these spaces, but also drawn to how we experience them- particularly through images, and how the language of images informs that experience. We take in physical space differently than those who lived before us. Photography, film, the frequency of imagery- these daily intakes help define how we see the world around us. It’s what we see, and how we see.
The images I create aren't the things they represent- they're not clouds, not land. They're just substances on surfaces, creating illusion, standing in. This push/pull of illusory space against other types of marks, more abstract in nature- it’s a back and forth dialogue that speaks about the beautiful artifice of image as much as anything else.
In some of my pieces, this dialogue is barely present...in others, it plays front and center. Sometimes the work feels fairly straightforward in its illusion, while at other points the dialogue of abstract mark against illusion takes center stage. We see identifiable things in abstraction, and abstract relationships in representation.
I’m not necessarily interested in beauty for its own sake, but it’s fine if that becomes the hit for others. I start with a goal, but in the end the work always determines the statement it makes. I prefer to let that happen. In the end, no artist can really control another’s experience with their work, so to be too concerned with that feels like an empty pursuit. I just make it, and then it exists. From there, it’s for others, if they want it.
The subject of the outside world around me is a rich and endless mine- I just continue working in my response to it. It helps me place myself, yet also think outside of myself. In the end, all art is a collective of voices from a point in time. I’m just adding mine.
Selected Corporate Collections:
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
US Department of State
Gregory Simmons Group
Fidelity Investments
Ritz-Carlton Hotels
Marriott Hotels
Westin “W” Hotels
Meditech Corporation
MFA Companies
Hilton Hotels
Greenfield and Lynch
Four Seasons Hotels
Biogen-Idec
Loomis Sayles and Co.
Le Meridien Hotels
Hyatt Place Hotels
Hotel Viking Newport
Artist Residencies
June 2013 BAER Art Center Hofsos, Iceland
Featured in
New American Paintings
Catalog nos. 20 and 38
A juried competition in print
published by Open Studios Press
and
Studio Visit Magazine
a juried survey of contemporary art
published by Open Studios Press
Selected Solo and two-person Exhibitions
- August 2020 Van Rensburg Gallery Milton, Australia
- October 2019 Gallery Orange New Orleans, Louisiana
- October 2018 Upstairs Artspace Tryon, NC
- June 2017 Lyons Weir Gallery New York, New York
- February 2017 Mike Wright Gallery Denver, Colorado
- June 2015 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- May 2015 Candita Clayton Gallery Providence, Rhode Islan
- March 2014 Gallery at The Umstead Cary, North Carolina
- December 2013 Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- August 2013 Bryant Street Gallery Palo Alto, California
- April 2013 work installation Neiman Marcus Boston, Massachusetts
- July 2012 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- January 2012 Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- February 2009 Van Ward Gallery Andover, Massachusetts
- January 2009 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Invitational Show
- January 2009 Jules Place Boston, Massachusetts
- January 2007 Jules Place Boston, Massachusetts
- December 2006 G2 Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona
- October 2006 Melanee Cooper Gallery Chicago, Illinois
- September 2005 Sasaki Associates Watertown, Massachusetts
- August 2005 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- May 2005 Jules Place Boston, Massachusetts
- January 2005 G2 Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona
- February 2004 Tapestry Gallery Sun Valley, Idaho
- September 2003 Ballard-Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- March 2003 Jules Place Boston, Massachusetts
- July 2002 Trinity Gallery Atlanta, Georgia
- June 2002 Ballard-Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- March 2001 Raymond Lawrence Gallery Atlanta, Georgia
- February 2001 Ballard-Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- July 2000 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Selected Group Exhibitions
- September 2021 MA Doran Gallery Tulsa OK
- March 2019 Asheville Area Arts Council Asheville, NC
- September 2018 Mark Bettis Gallery Asheville, NC
- July 2018 Miller White Fine Arts South Dennis, MA
- January 2018 Wally Workman Gallery Austin, Texas
- July 2017 Mike Wright Gallery Denver, Colorado
- February 2017 Blue Spiral 1 Gallery Asheville, North Carolina
- July 2016 Lyons Wier Gallery New York, New York
- June 2016 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- February 2016 Alan Avery Art Company Atlanta, Georgia
- February 2016 Sargent Gallery Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
- December 2012 Reynolds Fine Art New Haven, Connecticut
- July 2012 Karan Ruhlen Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico
- February 2012 Edgewater Gallery Middlebury, Vermont
- June 2010 Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- June 2010 Eisenhauer Gallery Martha’s Vineyard
- July 2009 Etherington Fine Art Martha's Vineyard
- March 2009 Fetherston Gallery Seattle, Washington
- July 2008 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Sarasota, Florida
- January 2008 Jules Place Boston, Massachusetts
- January 2008 Renee George Gallery Charlotte, North Carolina
- July 2007 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- July 2007 Anne Loucks Gallery Glencoe, Illinois
- July 2006 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- April 2006 Hayes George Gallery Charlotte, North Carolina
- December 2005 Anne Loucks Gallery Glencoe, Illinois
- February 2005 Cheryl Hazan Gallery New York, New York
- August 2004 Tapestry Gallery Sun Valley, Idaho
- June 2004 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- November 2003 Trinity Gallery Atlanta, Georgia
- July 2003 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- June 2003 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- March 2003 Gallery Terrence Denley Birmingham, Alabama
- December 2002 Trinity Gallery Atlanta, Georgia
- September 2002 Scott White Contemporary Art La Jolla, California
- August 2002 Mike Price Gallery Boston, Massachusetts
- July 2002 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- June 2002 Van Ward Gallery Ogunquit, Maine
- April 2002 Gallery Terrence Denley Birmingham, Alabama
- July 2001 Etherington Fine Art Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
- October 2000 Loaning Artists of The DeCordova Museum Federal Reserve Gallery Boston, Massachusetts
- April 2000 Mike Price Gallery Boston, Massachusetts
- May 1999 Our Good Earth: Landscape at the End of the Century Hemphill Fine Arts Washington, DC
- April 1999 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association Federal Reserve Gallery Boston, Massachusetts Winner, Daler Rowney Award