Artist's Statement

The search for form and how to make that form is at the very base of my study of painting. My work engages in a route of questioning about the nature of things, beings, activities and the medium itself. The paintings are formally rigorous-- worked and reworked in order to find a dynamic place of compositional balance. In a painting, much of the decisions of the work get buried under consequent layers of paint. Yet each painting represents a history of choices, rules and assumptions. The painter invents the rules of the game. The pleasure of painting comes from following this game through, seeing (literally) where it will lead. Seeing itself is a history built up of choices and environment. Painting is one way to reveal and make conscious our process of seeing. The work that results is a history of these momentary systems of decipherment.

Read my teaching philosophy.

 

Academic Credentials

M.F.A.   (1993)   University of Oregon

B.A.       (1986)   Bennington College

 

Courses Taught

Core 107       Exploration and Discovery 

Art 117         Painting I

Art 217         Painting II

Art 317          Painting III

Art 227          Special Topics: Painting Hybrid

Art 411          Senior Seminar: Studio

Art 490          Senior Project: Painting