Non-Representational Art intrigues me because of what I see as this paradox: That which seems to depict nothing in particular can actually hold everything.
This idea of “nothing” leading to “everything” reflects my understanding of the mysteries within my life’s journey. As I am painting I consider opposing forces of control/spontaneity, light/dark, horizontal/vertical and the interplay of colors that harmonize or contrast. Encaustic painting can be both fluid and solid. Layering, scraping and scoring become metaphors for time and memory within the paintings.
My Art contains basic structures, layers, fragments and edges. I explore these components intuitively. As I work on each painting I am bringing the separate elements together to create a whole. The ultimate meaning remains purposefully open-ended. For me this reflects a spiritual reality closer to the truth of my life than what could be expressed through a closed narrative or concept.
Within my choice to explore open-endedness is a response to current societal and environmental changes that I see as upheavals leading to what feels like an unknown and unpredictable future.
2010
WAX, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Chicago, IL; Curator
2009
Cross Pollination, Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL
33rd Competition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Metamorphosis, co-sponsored by Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE and International Encaustic Artists; juror, George W. Neubert, Catalogue Published
4th Annual Nat'l Juried Exhibition, Katherine Butler Gallery; Sarasota, FL; juror, Roy Slade
Annual Members' Show, Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL. juror, Judithe Hernández
Logan Square Connections, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
2008
Feminist Ecology: Women and the Earth, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College; Des Plaines, IL
Around The Coyote Fall Festival, Chicago, IL
1998
Loss and Grief, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Packages, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Twenty-first Annual Alice & Arthur Baer Competition, Beverly Art Center,Chicago, IL
1996
ARTIKISM - From the Outside In, Chicago, IL
1995
Gallery 1633 Guest Artist, Chicago, IL
1992
Sexual Politics, 1800 N. Clybourn Building, Chicago, IL
Seventy-First Annual Art Exhibit, Women’s Club of Evanston, IL
Michiana Regional Competition, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN
