Artist Statement
The majority of my paintings strive to explore our relationship with the natural world, as well as natural processes and what a landscape painting strives to represent. My abstractions, inspirations and ideas come from experiencing and exploring landscapes and wild areas throughout the world.
These works arise from a desire to capture movement and form within basic compositions and patterns, exploring the interplay between light, landscape, natural process and abstraction.
My paintings explore the interrelation between our ideals of the landscape as rooted in color, both random and fabricated order, as well as the landscapes that emerge within the individual cells composing each painting. These paintings are my interpretation of particular places and experiences. In abstracting from the landscape, I strive to capture the underlying visual impact and feeling of a place, and my interpretation of why that place moment or detail is important.
Galleries
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, California
Griffin Davis Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Zella Brown, Chicago, Illinois
Selected Exhibitions + Juried Shows
2008 Aquarela Internacional Invitational ?Äì Sao Paulo, Brasil
2008 Riverside Studios Spring Show, Truckee, California
2007 Paper Abstraction; Duo-Show, Griffin Davis Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2007 Riverside Studios Summer Show, Truckee, California
2007 Riverside Studios Spring Show, Truckee, California
2006 Fertile Hope Benefit Show, Griffin Davis Art, San Francisco, California
2006 White Studio NYC, New York
2006 Corison Gallery, Tahoe City, California
2005 Monadnock Building Show, Griffin Davis Art, San Francisco, California
2005 Riverside Studios Group Show, Truckee, California
2005 State of Abstraction; Griffin Davis Art, San Francisco, California
2005 North Tahoe Winter Invitational, Corison Gallery, Tahoe City, California
2004 Color Abstraction; Blue Tangerine Art, San Francisco, California
2004 Pistils and Anthers Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003 BUILD Gallery, San Francisco, California
Awards
2006 SECA Award nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Benefits/Auctions
2008 VisualAid, San Francisco, California
2007 VisualAid, San Francisco, California
2007 Kidzone Benefit Auction, Lake Tahoe, California
2006 VisualAid, San Francisco, California
2006 One HEART Tibet Benefit Auction, Beverly Hills, California
2005 VisualAid, San Francisco, California
2005 Corison Gallery Benefit Auction, Lake Tahoe, California
Publications
Moonshine Ink, May 2007
Xenoyoke Magazine, September | October 2004
Plum Ruby Review, June | July 2004
Make Magazine, Summer 2004
The Quarterly Staple, August 2004
Selected Collections
- Babey Moulton Jue & Booth, San Francisco, California
- Genentech, South San Francisco, California
- Charles and Helen Schwab, San Francisco, California
- Charles Schwab, Inc.
- DLA Piper, San Francisco
