My work is an ecology of improvisational marks exploring the wisdom and wonder of uncertainty, failure, and getting lost. I paint what is unknown to me. I paint, not to elevate myself, but to surpass my self-importance.
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Now represented by LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY
LATEST BLOG POST
What I Don’t Know
“I have to remind myself that I don’t need to know where this painting will end up—only that it's trying to answer a question I don’t know how to ask. As I’m working, I strive (clumsily) to invite a state of not knowing—as frustrating and debilitating as it can be much of the time—because that’s why I paint, why most of us paint, I gather, to better understand what we don’t know. Or maybe, more accurately, that we don’t know…”
EXHIBITIONS
2024
- March,Unexpected Solitude, LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, Portland, OR
- Featured in Saatchi Art’s “24 Artists to collect in 2024”
2023
- Solo, Beyond the Now, Galley 114. Portland, OR
- Group, Artworks Northwest Biennial, Umqua Valley Arts, Curated by Arvie Smith, Roseburg, OR
- Solo, Small Works, Cellar Z, Portland, OR
- Group, Winter Exhibition, Jen Tough Gallery and Artist Alliance, Artsy
- Group, The Space Between, Artist Alliance, Artsy, Curated by Michael Shemchuck
2022
- Group show, METAXIS, E. Serreau Studio/Gallery, Portland, OR. MORE INFO
- Solo show, The Joinery at St. Johns, Portland, OR
- Solo show, The Joinery, Downtown Portland, OR
- The Sound of Forgetting, Exhibbit, Virtual Exhibition
- Group show, A Thousand Words, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR
- Solo show, Ongoing Renewal, Nest, Portland, OR
- The Gaze Behind Closed Eyes. Exhibbit, Virtual Exhibition
Art Folio 2021 available on Amazon.
Art Folio 2020 is available for purchase.
“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” -Robert Henri
Represented by LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY
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