I see a space in which the paintings, relatively large sheets of paper are pinned to the walls. The viewer is invited to look directly into the paper at the fine gradations of color radiating up through hundreds of layers of watercolor paint. The paintings resonate with each other surrounding the viewer in a stereoscopic immersion. Form emerges from color in my paintings. The colors of paint are mixed and then applied one on top of another, red on top of blue, blue on top of red, sometimes yellow over everything. I use a brush and a lot of water. I turn the painting several times as I work, allowing the color to run. The colors lead into one another, each layer transforming the ones beneath in a meditative process whose traces still register in high-resolution digital images of the finished works. Thinking through color, I have painted in response to feelings aroused by music and meditations on thoughts and poems. Not consigned to symbolism, the colors gather nuance from successive washes of paint and slip along the color wheel, inviting the eye to dwell in the elusive space opened by sustained attention.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2005 Inbetweenness, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD (2 artists)
2002 In Pursuit of Form, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1998 Watercolors, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Washington, DC
1997 Abstracted Space, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Sculpture NOW 2012, Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC, juror, Sarah Newman
2011 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition, Decker/Meyerhoff Galleries, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010 Porous Borders, Washington Sculptor Group, Historical Society, Washington DC juror,J.McLellan
2010 gaps, Washington Sculptor Group, Reston Arts Center, Reston VA & IPAR juror, Vesela Sretenovic
2009 Idylls, Washington Project for the Arts, World Bank, Washington, DC curator: Andrea Pollan
2009 Wild Women of Watercolor, Marlboro Gallery, Prince George’s Community College, Largo,MD
2008 22nd Annual Critics’ Residency at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD curator: Robert Berlind
2007 Pre-Primed 2007 Washington Project for the Arts \Corcoran, Washington, DC
2006 Sculpture Unbound, Edison Place, Washington, DC, WPA & Washington Sculptors Group juried by Glenn Harper, editor of "Sculpture" Magazine
2005 Thick and Thin, Gumenick Family Gallery, Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, Richmond, VA curators: N. Elizabeth Schlatter and Gwen Van Ostern
2001 Peace Exhibition, Anne C. Fisher Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2000 Works on Paper Show, New York Armory, New York, NY
2000 Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1999 22nd Annual Art on Paper Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD Critics' Choice Award

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Americans for the Arts, Washington, DC
St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s, MD
Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Washington, DC
New York Grand Hyatt, New York, NY
Orlando Hilton, Orlando, FL
Ritz Carlton, DIFC, Dubai
Crystal City Hilton, Arlington, VA
San Diego Marriott Marina, San Diego, CA
MGM Project City Center, Los Angeles, CA
DC Four Seasons, Washington, DC

PRESENT AFFILIATION 2012
Youngblood,Interiors Sag Harbor, NY
Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA; London, UK
InLiquid.com, Philadelphia, PA
Washington Sculptor’s Group, Washington, DC
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baltimore CityBeat , Baltimore, MD May 28, 2008
Art Papers, Reviews, pg 46 July/August 2005
Style Weekly, Richmond, VA April 27, 2005
City Beat, Cincinnati, OH October 11, 2002

RECENT AWARDS
2012 Finalist for the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, Bethesda, MD
2011 Semi-Finalist for the Sondheim Prize, Baltimore, MD
2009 Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts: Sculpture -Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
2005 Semi-Finalist for the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, Bethesda, MD

PROFFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE
2011 – present Member of the Board of Directors, Washington Sculptor’s Group
1999 – present Artistic Director/Screen Painter, for theatre, Hoover Middle School, Potomac, MD

EDUCATION
M.A., Art Education, University of Cincinnati, 1983
B.F.A., Sculpture and Drawing, Northern Kentucky University, 1981
Welding Certification, Northern Kentucky Vocational/Technical School, 1981
Sculpture and Drawing Studio of Michael Skop, Master Sculptor (assistant to Ivan Mestrovic), KY, 1978-82
B.A., Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978