ABOUT THE ART
First and foremost, I love the materials I use. Whether it's paint, wax, twine, nails, eggshells, feathers, or plexiglass, each is chosen for a particular sensory response it provides. Sometimes the response is due to visual cues. Often, it is the tactile quality of the substance or object that appeals to me: plastic, flexible, rough, smooth, cold, hard, soft. These sensations elicit associations and memories. The reaction is personal, based on an individual's history. Familiarity has the power to make us feel. It can bring comfort as easily as it can cause pain. Nails are cold, hard and sharp. Their primary function is to hold things together, but they also puncture, tear and scratch. Notches cut into a surface signify the passing of time, ageing, damage, a record of occurrence. My connections will be different from yours. My internal dialogue while making art is fluid, always changing. Some ideas I keep coming back to are precarious balance, loss, rebuilding and the unification of contrary elements. In some ways my work tends to be autobiographical, though not overtly so.

1996 BA with honors from SUNY PLATTSBURGH
degree in studio art with concentrations in painting and sculpture

EXHIBITS
2008
Blueseed Studios - Saranac Lake, NY
Jane Lund Invitational @ Northampton Center for the Arts - Northampton, MA
2007
Small, group show @ Wunderarts in Amherst, Ma
Abstract Exposure, best in show - abstractexposure.com
Glendi Festival Exhibit, best in show - Springfield, MA
Art Walk Easthampton - Easthampton, MA
2006
Burnett Gallery - Amherst, MA
Jane Lund Invitational @ Guild Art Centre - Northampton, MA
2005
Jane Lund Invitational @ Guild Art Centre - Northampton, MA
2001
Flywheel Arts Collective - Easthampton, MA