Artist Statement:
Creating beauty and order out of chaos, I find it endlessly challenging and fulfilling to start with randomness and then follow it to see where it leads me. Chance happenings are both catalyst and guide. Alternating between calculated drawing and gestural mark-making; focused exploration and spontaneous experimentation; thoughtful color placement and impulsive splashes of paint, I explore the balance between extremes. These paintings, a record of that dialogue, meld my innate need to create with a desire to evoke a visceral response in the viewer.
Awards & Distinctions:
PRESS/PUBLICATION
Picturing Florida-from the 1st Coast to the Space Coast, a book featuring 38 Florida artists
Horse Sayings-wit & wisdom straight from the horse’s mouth
HITS-2008 Winter Circuit cover artist
Arbus-N. Florida’s Arts & Business Magazine Sept/Oct 2008
Backstage Pass Feb 2008
Orlando Arts Magazine May/June 2008
MUSEUM AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Art and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Museum of Florida Art, Deland FL
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
Del FriscoGrille, Houston, TX
Homewood Suites by Hilton, Ocala, FL
The Towers at Williams Square, Irving, TX
SQ Advisors Naples FL
Beaux-Art Group Tampa FL
Bank of America Minneapolis MN
University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union, Lexington KY
Eilan Hotel + Spa San Antonio TX
Exhibitions:
2017 TEW Gallery Atlanta GA-Solo Show
Roan + Black Gallery Saugatuck MI-Solo Show
Art-Prov Gallery Providence RI-4 person show
LeMoyne Center for the Visual Art Tallahassee FL-"Outside The Lines" 4 person show
2016 Ormond Museum of Art Ormond FL "Outside The Lines" 4 person show
Roan + Black Saugatuck MI-group show
2015 Spectrum Miami FL
MAC Fine Art, Ft Lauderdale FL
Roan + Black Gallery Saugatuck MI
2014 TEW Gallery, Atlanta GA
Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck MI
2013 Roan & Black Gallery, Saugatuck MI
2012 EQUUS2 person Show, TEW gallery, Atlanta, GA
Solo show, Marleau Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2011 THROUGH THE COLLECTORS EYE-group show at the Florida Museum of Women Artist, Deland, FL
NEO EXPRESSIONS: Three person show-Hollingsworth Gallery, Palm Coast, FL
2010 ART LEAGUE MEMBERS SHOW-Achievement Award, Daytona Beach. FL
2009 COLOR MY WORLD 2 person show- Art League of Daytona Beach, FL
ART LEAGUE MEMBERS SHOW-1st Place, Daytona Beach, FL
2008 PICTURING FLORIDA-group show, Fogle Fine Art, Jacksonville, FL
Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association Art Show-group show, Ocala, FL
HORSES & HEALING BENEFIT ART EXHIBIT: Casselberry City Hall, FL
ARTIST WORKSHOP 50TH ANNIVERSARY MEMBERS SHOW-Best of Show, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2007 EQUUS: THE ART OF THE HORSE-group show, Museum of Florida Art-Deland FL
EQUINE ART-group show, Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
EQUIFEST-Featured Artist, Deland Museum of Art, FL
WASHINGTON THROROUGHBRED FOUNDATION EQUINE ART-2nd place and peoples' choice awards, Auburn, WA
2006 EQUIFEST-Award of Merit, Museum of Florida Art, Deland, FL
Artist Tags:
horse, equine, abstract-expressionist, gestural, modern, contemporary
