After more than two decades pursuing a career in the not-for-profit sector, I moved to Maine to build a quieter, healthier life. Until then, I never considered myself an artist. I always felt more comfortable on “the other side”, preferring to use my intellect and reasoning over engaging in any risky creativity. I majored in art history and even worked at numerous well know art museums, I never once enrolled in a studio course or consider myself more than a dilettante.
As healthier habits set in, it became increasingly difficult to deny the inner voice encouraging me to share my perspective. As a late-blooming artist with no technical proficiency, I turned to what was is around me for a medium: my personal collection books, inexpensive antiques, and mundane everyday objects from the past. Like many artist before me, once I broke the items down and organized them into individual components, I quickly realized their potential to elicit a specific narrative.
My works are more deliberate than decorative collages or readymade sculptures. Each work addresses an epistemological peculiarities or ontological oddities of the human existence. I’ve struggled with mental health and physical issues, including drug addiction and Pure Obsessional OCD. Often the elixir is to engage in mental practices that “make the room larger”, either by meditation or considering the more mysterious and ineffable aspects of life; and this is what I hope to offer.
CRAFT FAIRS
2010 - 2020: Boston Arts Festival, SoWa Open Market, The Freeport Festival, and Portland Maker’s MarketPROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2003 - 2010: Communications and Strategic Planning Consultant for MIT, Nobel Foundation, The Kingbridge Institute, Harvard University, Diagnostics for All, among others
1998 - 2003: Education Associate at Museum of Contemporary Art (Boston) and Danforth Museum of Art
1990-1998: Additional work experience at the Portland Museum of Art, Gardner Museum, MFA (Boston), among others.EDUCATION
1998: George Washington University, Masters in Teaching
1996: Bates College, Bachelors in ArtARTISTIC LINEAGE: Joseph Cornell, Rene Margaritte, William Morris and Augusta Pugin
PERSONAL INTERESTS: Horses, Gardening, Equities, and Advaita Vedanta
BIRTH: April 1974
