EDUCATION
2011 Syracuse University,
MFA in Painting (anticipated)
2006 Laguna College of Art & Design Summer Program, Vienna, Austria
and Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Laguna College of Art & Design Summer Program, Holland and
Belgium
2003-2007
Laguna College of Art & Design, B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing with a
Sculpture Minor- Summa Cum Laude, President’s Honor Role
EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Nude in Contemporary Art: A National Juried Exhibition,
A.D. Gallery: U North Carolina,
2009 First Year Graduate Painting Exhibition, Crouse
Hall: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2009 Graduate Drawing Exhibition, The Wall: Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY
2008 Sotto Voce, Fairhaven Mausoleum, Juried Exhibition:
Santa Ana, CA
Use of my painting on Invites and Booklet to represent the exhibition Feminism
Rhetoric,
Spark Gallery: Syracuse, NY
MFA Exhibition, Spark Gallery: Syracuse, NY
Graduate Painting Exhibition, The Wall: Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY
2007 Capturing the Force of Stillness, Fairhaven Mausoleum,
Juried Exhibition: Santa
Ana, CA
Fine Arts Exhibitions,
7 Degrees Gallery: Laguna Beach, CA
Travels with Betty, Kings Art Center: Hanford, CA
The Romance of Prague, the Glory of Vienna,
Laguna College of Art & Design: Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Mentorship Art Walk, Dawson Cole Fine Art: Laguna Beach, CA
The United Society of Pastel Artists 1st Annual Membership Juried
Show: Laguna Beach, CA
Passport to China Exhibit, Contemporary Chinese Fine
Art: Laguna Beach, CA
The Light and Splendor of Holland, Laguna College of
Art & Design: Laguna Beach, CA
Summer Exhibit, Hopsings Gallery: Laguna Beach,
CA
Food Without Faces Exhibit, The Camp: Costa Mesa, CA
2005 Juried Spring Exhibit, Laguna College of Art Design:
Laguna Beach, CA
2004 Juried Spring Exhibit, Laguna College of Art &
Design: Laguna Beach, CA
2003 Juried Spring Exhibit, Laguna College of Art &
Design: Laguna Beach, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2007 Publication of Senior Capstone Thesis Paper, Laguna College of
Art & Design: Laguna Beach, CA
2006 “Valley Artists in Focus,” Saddleback Valley News, November.
“Sculptural Hawk Set to Soar,” Canyon Views,
July
HONORS
AND AWARDS
2008-2009 Tuition
Scholarship: Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
2007 Best Thesis Award: Fine Arts, Laguna College of Art & Design
Laguna Beach, CA
First Place- “The Best of the Best” Sculpture, The Pacific
Art Foundation Laguna Beach, CA
2006 First Place-Student, United Society of Pastel Artists, Laguna
Beach, CA
Peter and Masha Plotkin Award, Peter & Masha Plotkin Memorial Foundation: Lake
Forest, CA
Best of Show, The Pacific Art Foundation: Laguna Beach,
CA
First Place-Mixed
Medium, Santa Ana Art Association: Santa Ana, CA
2003 - 2007 Laguna College of Art and Design Merit Scholarship: Laguna Beach,
CA
ARTIST
STATEMENT
My paintings challenge the traditional idea of completeness. Within the
compositions, I am exploring the extent of paint application necessary for a
piece to feel whole. Each work has the extreme spectrums of drawing and
painting where each component can suffice separately as well as symbiotically.
The construction lines lead the viewer’s eyes to the fully rendered oil paint
passageways that not only highlight areas of importance, like a spotlight in a
theater of artifice, but also expose my process to the viewer. I embrace
translucent and opaque layers of paint to reflect the multiple meanings within
my work as well as expose my process to the viewer in hopes that osmotically the
observer shares the experience of development that I had encountered. My goal
with this constant interaction of oil paint and charcoal on paper is to catch
and hold the spectator’s attention long enough to question my intentions and
reasons for approaching the figure in this manner.
Construction takes on a vital role within my work. There is a concrete parallel between construction building and the human figure in my pieces. The construction lines from the drawing create the foundation and skeleton for the surface of the paintings, just as the frame within a building is a necessity for the walls to stand. The beauty of the surface of the painting could not exist without the bare skeletal drawing, reminiscent of Renaissance cartoons, also known as preparatory drawings, used for paintings.
Renaissance cartoons, Tenebrism, Artifice, Mannerism, Realism, and even an appropriated form of Minimalism are all painting traditions that are embodied within my work. I realize that the history of painting is one of length and grandeur, with exposing my process, from the bare construction to the fully rendered surface, and pushing the characteristics of painting and drawing to their extreme I am exploring an exaggeration and embellishment of past traditions.
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