Oh, Canada
In 2010, I moved from the U.S to Canada. My work changed as I responded to this new environment. No need to switch countries to feel what I've felt: initial elation at the new, followed by destabilizing displacement from the familiar and a longing to return to a sense of belonging.
where:about
Phase one: Hopeful, naive and slightly lost, I was seduced by Vancouver...so clean, fresh air, mountains, ocean. My paintings and drawings are flooded with light and color; landscapes breathe; flowers rise into the sky like the sun. I map my movements, maps that evolve into constellations of circles in this exploration that combines the literal and physical with the visceral and virtual -- maps of roads traveled in daily life, maps of memory, and maps of geometry.
dis:place
Phase two: Displaced, disconnected, an outsider. Rejection erodes my confidence and sense of self. I create a marionette trickster, Clara T. White, and turn to her for help. My paintings and drawings enter a looking glass of ideas about place, looking from the outside in and the inside out, and from an attachment to ideas of place and the displacement of attachments. Snow White is part of this journey, taken through the feminist looking glass.
speak to me
When Clara T. White is not enough, my gaze turns to memory and remembering, seeking grounding by painting and drawing portraits of dead relatives and friends who know me and I miss.
black flower stories
Phase three: paintings of black flowers and the emergence of the dark feminine. Stories grow through the pedals of these paintings, mythical, primordial, futuristic, harkening the end of the earth as we know it and a psychic return to the romantic past. Within the black flower, I think I see the world that is coming, the world that has been, and the symmetry of both. These paintings are the beginning of a new series.
Earlier work
45 consists of 22 drawings – which observe shifting thoughts over time. These drawings were created in my Salt Lake City studio. Like meditation, the process of making them, created awareness of the movement of the mind over time, from the profound to the absurd with a lot of chatter in between. Each drawing is approximately 7’ x 7’, on brown wrapping paper, gessoed either in black, white or neutral. The palette is limited to black and white, with an occasional hint of color.
In 2010, I moved from the U.S to Canada. My work changed as I responded to this new environment. No need to switch countries to feel what I've felt: initial elation at the new, followed by destabilizing displacement from the familiar and a longing to return to a sense of belonging.
where:about
Phase one: Hopeful, naive and slightly lost, I was seduced by Vancouver...so clean, fresh air, mountains, ocean. My paintings and drawings are flooded with light and color; landscapes breathe; flowers rise into the sky like the sun. I map my movements, maps that evolve into constellations of circles in this exploration that combines the literal and physical with the visceral and virtual -- maps of roads traveled in daily life, maps of memory, and maps of geometry.
dis:place
Phase two: Displaced, disconnected, an outsider. Rejection erodes my confidence and sense of self. I create a marionette trickster, Clara T. White, and turn to her for help. My paintings and drawings enter a looking glass of ideas about place, looking from the outside in and the inside out, and from an attachment to ideas of place and the displacement of attachments. Snow White is part of this journey, taken through the feminist looking glass.
speak to me
When Clara T. White is not enough, my gaze turns to memory and remembering, seeking grounding by painting and drawing portraits of dead relatives and friends who know me and I miss.
black flower stories
Phase three: paintings of black flowers and the emergence of the dark feminine. Stories grow through the pedals of these paintings, mythical, primordial, futuristic, harkening the end of the earth as we know it and a psychic return to the romantic past. Within the black flower, I think I see the world that is coming, the world that has been, and the symmetry of both. These paintings are the beginning of a new series.
Earlier work
45 consists of 22 drawings – which observe shifting thoughts over time. These drawings were created in my Salt Lake City studio. Like meditation, the process of making them, created awareness of the movement of the mind over time, from the profound to the absurd with a lot of chatter in between. Each drawing is approximately 7’ x 7’, on brown wrapping paper, gessoed either in black, white or neutral. The palette is limited to black and white, with an occasional hint of color.