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Statement:
Visceral Landscape
I suspect these pieces chronicle the years my husband
and I have been trying to start a family- a humbling
journey. The struggle to get pregnant has moved on
to
a surprisingly long wait for an adopted child. My
emotional ups and downs are in the palette. Hopes and
wishes appear in the light and in the drawings of
plants reaching with out-of–season blooms. Barrenness
and fertility seem to be elemental themes. The tides
and swirling energetic forces join the atmosphere of
the landscape and its emotional sweep.
I use an old Polaroid camera from the 1970’s and
a
film that gives me both a negative and a positive.
The film acts slowly in the winter cold and tends to
develop only half way, solarizing (reversing) the
lightest tones. These landscapes come across as other
worldly, more like drawings of a place where
twilight holds day and night in an odd balance; the
seasons exist simultaneously; water, sky and earth
remind each other of their common business. I am
attracted to the inter-relatedness of it all, nature’s
miracle of cooperation.
The photographs are mounted on wood and then sealed
in translucent encaustic medium (bees wax w/ a resin
hardener). I use etching tools to draw a response to
the photograph, filling the etched lines with oil color.
Several encaustic layers build an interpreted place,
season and time of day. This process has obscured the
work’s photographic origins, moving more toward
the world of printmaking and drawing. I allow myself
to use a photographic image five times, to see what
happens each time depending on my internal landscape
I think of these "editions" as families, cousins
or siblings born with the same genes and destined to
realize their own potential.
Select Exhibitions:
Haydon Art Center
Lincoln, Nebraska
July 2006
R&F Encaustic Gallery
Kingston, NY
June 2006
Erpf Gallery
Catskill Center for Conservation
Margaretville, NY
May 2006
Chace-Randall Gallery
Andes,NY
May 2006
Center for Photography
Woodstock, NY
January 2006
Samuel Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz, NY
September 2005
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
July 2005
BMG Galerie
Woodstock NY
July 2005
Barrett House
Poughkeepsie NY
April 2005
Pendulum Gallery
Saugerties NY
March 2005
Center for Curatorial Studies
Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
February 2005
Marist College Art Gallery
Poughkeepsie NY
December 2004
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Hudson NY
March 2004
Upstate Art
Phoenicia NY
July & October 2003
Elana Zang
Woodstock NY
July 2002
Standard Gallery
Chicago IL
Dec 2001
Chartwell Books
New York NY
May - December 2000
Yancy Richardson Gallery
New York NY
July 1999
Lumiere Gallery
Savannah GA
November 1998
Time and Space Ltd.
Hudson NY
May 1997
Lineage Gallery
Chicago IL
March 1997
Local Heroes Public Art Project
Catskill NY
January 1997
Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York NY
November 1996
Boston Art Institute
Boston MA
March 1996 & December 1992
Lorraine Kessler Gallery
Poughkeepsie NY
November 1995
Gallery of Contemporary Art
Hudson NY
1995/96
Klienert/James Art Center
Woodstock NY
June 1995
Warren Street Gallery
Hudson NY
June 1995
Donskoj Gallery
Kingston NY
February 1995
Russle Sage College Gallery
Troy NY>
October 1994
Center for Photography
Kodak Gallery
Woodstock NY
December 1990
Lieberman & Saul Gallery
New York NY
June 1989
Collections:
Le Centre Sheraton
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2005
McGraw Hill
Tokyo, Japan
1999
Sony
New York, NY
1998
Dow Jones
New York, NY
1997
Sol Lewitt
Connecticut
1998
New York State Bridge Authority
New Paltz, NY
1995
Bibliotec National
Paris, France
1995
Grants:
New York State Council
on the Arts
Local Heroes Project 1996
Who We Are Where We Live 1999
Independent Artist Grant 2001
International Residencies for Artists
New Delhi, India
2001
Puffin Foundation Award for Community Arts
New Jersey
1996 and 1999
Bell Atlantic Foundation
Albany, NY
1999
Select Publications:
Library Series Monograph scheduled for publication Stinehour
Wymus Editions, 2006
Harper’s February 2003
New York Observer, Review December 2000
ARTnews, review October 1999
Graphis, Fine Art Photography February 1998
Fotophile, photo essay September 1997
Mirabella, photo illustration January/February, 1997
New York Times, review December 31, 1996
New Yorker, reviews December 23, 1996 and January 6,
1997
Related Experience:
Adjunct Professor School of Visual Arts New York, NY
1994 to present
Curator Catskill Mountain Foundation Hunter, NY 2001
to 2004
Coordinator Woodlanders Gathering Dan Mack Hunter, NY
Summer 2003/2004
Manager Workshop & Lecture Series Center for Photography
at Woodstock Woodstock, NY 1989-2004
Development and Instruction Children’s Photography
Program Catskill Community Center Catskill, NY 1999
to 2001
Photography Workshop Instructor Cairo and Durham, NY
Libraries Cairo and Durham, NY 2001
Guest Artist Bouriage Arts Retreat Bouriage, France
2001
Juror, Regional Fellowships Center for Photography at
Woodstock Woodstock, NY 1999
Mentor/Adjunct Professor, Master of Fine Arts Program
Vermont College of Norwich University Montpelier, VT
1997-1998
Boston Art Institute, 2004 and 2005 Boston, MA
Community Outreach Coordinator Greene County Council
on the Arts Catskill, NY 1996-1997
Consultant Woodstock Guild Woodstock, NY 1995
Consultant/Curator Mark Lawrence Associates Fine Art
Dealers Woodstock and Athens, NY 1994-1995
Panelist, SOS Grant Fund Rensselaer County Council on
the Arts Troy, NY 1992, 1996 and 1998
Director, Visual Arts Program Greene County Council
on the Arts Catskill and Windham, NY 1990-1993
Intern, Preparator, Registrar's Assistant New Museum
of Contemporary Art New York, NY 1984-1986
Independent Curator Photography and related arts installation
slides and video available 1987 to present
Blackwood Studios Architectural Woodworking and Cabinetry
Catskill, NY and New York, NY 1984 – 1993
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