Currently my work as an artist is experimenting with my body, movement and traditional painting/drawing materials in order to create a dialogue between dance and painting. It is my body's history as that of a trained dancer and my training as a visual artist that lead me to initiate dialogue in and about time, the moment, the materials, movement, space, the environment, issues of beauty and the experience of the live event. I am literally using my body as a material, I am moving within the art piece, merging myself between two worlds of space, that of two dimensional space, (painting/ drawing) and that of the three dimensional space of physical movement, dance. I want to share the all-encompassing physical process of painting and many times emotional dilemma that is behind the finished end product.
Recently I am inspired by and look to artists such as Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneeman, and Pina Bausch.
Similarities are in the emphasis in use of the body as a means of expressing identity (as a woman). Anna Mendieta's work demonstrates a response to the (artistic) dominance of painting; this is interesting to me based on my background as a painter. Carolee Schneeman talks of her intuition and trust of the body.
I resist formally categorizing my self as any one "type" of creative artist. I strive to see beyond formal boundaries that are used to define an artist as a painter, dancer etc..I rely on my intuitive response to how and what is the best way to express and process ideas that I continue to explore in my work as an artist.
I hope to continue to reach visual arts, performing arts', educational and experimental arts' minded communities that focus on and/or are interested in experiencing a renewed awareness to how we define the concept of interdisciplinary work that pushes boundaries in new ways.
Education:
- University of California at Berkeley, Masters in Fine Arts 2004
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN., BA ART HISTORY, 1989
- Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Dance Major, 1984
- California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; 1996-1997, 2000-2001
- University of California, Berkley, CA; 1994-1995
- San Francisco School of Art, San Francisco, CA; 1993-1995
Juried Competitions:
- University of California at Berkeley, Masters in Fine Arts 2004
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN., BA ART HISTORY, 1989
- Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, Dance Major, 1984
- California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA; 1996-1997, 2000-2001
- University of California, Berkley, CA; 1994-1995
- San Francisco School of Art, San Francisco, CA; 1993-1995
- Peninsula Open Studios and International Juried Show at Herbst Pavillion, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 2003. Juror; Marian Parmentier, MOMA Artist's Gallery
- Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Juried Competition, Reflections, Forms, Patterns, 2001, Juror; Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson Curator UC Berkeley Art Museum
- CVA-Center For The Visual Arts, Bay Area Juried Competition, Points of View, 1996
- BACA-Berkeley Art Center Association, 11th Annual National Juried Competition, Works on Paper, 1995
- Awards:
- Julian Easels Award of Excellence, Oils Category, Juror, Squeak Carnwath The Amsterdam Art Exhibit-Fort Mason, 1998
Exhibitions: - Current: Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Or, April 2006
- Upcoming: June 2006- "The Future" as part of The International Museum of Women
- On line exhibition entitled "Imagining Ourselves" got to, www.imow.org
- Sketch, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis, Jan-March, 2006
- Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Or, April 2006
- McHenry County College, Solo Show, Crystal Lake, IL. Sept. 2007
- Marking Motion, The Lab, San Francisco, 2005
- MFA Exhibition, Compass Points, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum, 2004
- Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley Fall First Year MFA Group Show, 2002
- Open Studios, Dutch Boy Studios, Oakland, 2002
- Open Studios Somar Gallery, 2000,2001
- UC Berkeley Student Group Show, Eloise Pritchard Gallery, 1996
- Selections From Open Studios, SOMAR Gallery, 1996
- San Francisco School of Art-Spring Student Show, 1995
- Private Commission: Completed 2005