Woman with Plant (after Grant Wood) 20 x 20″ (2014)
Artist Statement
I began my career as an artist working with fibers. Learning to make my own colors through hand-dyeing was the catalyst to my becoming an artist. I currently work in acrylics and oil on canvas, painting what I see around me everyday. I think in color and use color and form to express my vision of the things in this world. I am a representative painter, but I lean into abstraction. I simplify forms and alter colors to emphasize the nature of the things I see. I find joy in the mundane.
Lately I find myself focused on portraits of my friends and family. I like to paint people I know because I can penetrate the surface and suggest the temperament and personality of the person I’m portraying. Its important that I get the person’s likeness, not an exact likeness, but I have to see them on the canvas
Also lately I’ve been exploring self image and self presentation in women, especially that of older women. As we age we deal with changes in body and image. As we come to grips with our changing bodies and struggle with self presentation we, paradoxically, become less visible to the outside world. But we are still the same selves. How do we reconcile this disparity between our selves and our image?
Bio
I was born, raised, and still live in Chicago. I was educated at public universities and have an honors BA in English and an MA in Gerontology.
I didn’t realize that I was an artist until late in life. But looking back, I retain strong memories of color from childhood: the thrill of seeing green and purple side by side; the frisson of chartreuse; my favorite outfit because it was yellow and brown. I loved to draw, but because I showed no special talent for drawing I was not encouraged and later on, did not encourage myself toward art school.
From the women in my family I learned to knit and sew and all my life have made things from yarn and cloth. This led to a breakthrough around 2010 when I began to make quilts that were meant for display rather than use – art quilts. These can be seen on my Abstracts page. I began hand-dyeing fabric and eventually came to using dyes on raw canvas, usually combined with paints. I haven’t finished with exploring dyes as art materials, but as of this writing (2015) I’ve been focused on painting.
Through classes at the Lill Street Art Center and the Evanston Art Center, I found a vocation as a painter of everyday objects, people, and scenes. I am currently in the Wednesday group at Ann Ponce studios where I continue to learn about painting from Ann and my fellow artists. I am also a member of the Chicago Alliance of Vsual Artists (CAVA) and the Art Encounter Critique Group.
Exhibits
2018
Oak Park Art League, Members Show, Oak Park, IL November
Gallery 1070, CAVA 35th Anniversary Gala, Chicago, IL October
Woman Made Gallery, 21st International Open, Chicago, IL August
Lincolnwood Village Hall, Families, Lincolnwood, IL July-August
Oak Park Art League, People, Oak Park , IL July
Oak Park Art League, Gardens and Prairies, Oak Park, IL June
Bridgeport Art Center (Invitational) Loved Ones, Chicago, IL May-July
Gallery 1070, The Emergent Garden, Chicago, IL April-June
2017
Awarded: Award of Merit (cash prize) Dennis in Chair, CAVA Later Impressions
Evanston Art Center, Studio Show, Evanston, IL January
The New Studio, Friends and Strangers: Portraits, Two-person Exhibit, Evanston, IL March-April
City Newsstand, Dressing Up: Wardrobe Series, Solo Exhibit, Chicago, IL May
Mayslake Peabody Estate, CAVA Later Impressions, Oak Brook, IL October
2016
Evanston Art Center, Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Evanston, IL October-November
Austin Irving Library, Northwest Arts Connection, Chicago, IL October – December
Benedictine University, Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Lisle, IL May – Juy
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North shore Art League, Inchworks, Winnetka, IL December
Niles Public Library, Twenty Paintings Solo Exhibit, Niles, IL December
Evanston Art Center, Winter Arts Expo, Evanston, IL November 20 – December 21
Noyes Center, Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists (CAVA), Evanston, IL May 8 – June 1
Open Wall, Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists (CAVA), Chicago/47th Ward Office April 1 – May 29
Northwest Area Arts Council, Women’s Work, Woodstock, IL March 12- May 2
Northshore Art League, Kitchen Table, Winnetka, IL, February 5 – March 12
Morpho Gallery, Emerging Artists, Chicago, February 20 – March 6
2014
Ravenswood Art Walk, Chicago/Ponce Studios, October
Koehnline Museum, Gendering Desire, DesPlaines, IL, October
Curt’s Cafe, (curator and exhibitor), Fiber Arts Show, Evanston/Senior Artists Network, August
Light, Space, and Time, Botanicals, Online, July
Beverly Art Center, Members Show, Chicago/Senior Artists Network, March-April
2013
Art Lakeview, Chicago, October
Emily Oaks Nature Center, (curator), Nature Abstracted, Skokie/Senior Artists Network, July -August
North Shore Senior Center, Members Show, Wilmette/Senior Artists Network, May-June
Open Wall, Chicago/47th Ward Office, March- May
Pilsen Art Gallery, Blind Eye exhibit, Chicago/Surface Design Association, October
North Park Neigborhood Artists, Chicago, October
2012
Old Town Triangle Association, Members Show, Chicago/Senior Artists Network, May
2011
Fermi Labs, Art + Science, Batavia, IL, November – January
Lincoln Center Galleries, Fabrics of Legacies, Fort Collins, CO, October – November
Chicago Cultural Center, Later Impressions, Chicago/Senior Artists Network, October
Arvada Center, Sangre deChristo, U. of Colorado, Colorado/Studio Art Quilt Assoc., June – January
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