“My goal is to create the most authentic thought and soul-provoking art that I am capable of. Using dreams, ideas, series and layers, I experiment, test and move forward as much as possible to where my art is pulling me. Art for me is moving and relentless.”
For the past five years, I have had the privilege of working out of my art studio in the Arts District Liberty Station, Barracks 16, Studio 104. My studio is currently open by appt. only because of the pandemic.
Artist Bio:
To be an artist always seemed to me to be a dangerous and powerful occupation: dangerous in the extent of the unprotected self, powerful because in a way, artists hold the future. What they write, what they draw, what they propose often defines the direction of a culture. The goal of my art is to process the events, thoughts, understandings and questions that populate my mind into a visual format that others might understand or question their own events and thoughts in a new way. I am interested in the commonality of our lives and the idea that we are not alone, that we have our place in a historical sequence of generations.
I am a southern California native who had the good fortune to spend my high school years in France where art is a way of life. My parents took me to the great museums of Europe where I asked myself “How did they do that?”, not imagining that I would one day call myself an artist.
With a Bachelor’s degree in French Literature and a Master’s degree in Writing, I thought I would be a writer. But later, I began to have dreams of color and paint and giant canvases. I returned to college to study four years of art and later found myself an art studio at Liberty Station where I could paint and interact with visitors from around the world. I have found that art can often remind viewers of what they once knew, can bring back lost memories and dreams. I try to work from the mix of my culture, experiences, and skills to cooperate with the materials at hand.