Artist Statement
My abstract work arose, in part, from a fascination with the lines of Ukiyo-e prints and manga illustration. Rather than lines reproduced from drawings to create multiple images, however, the lines of my abstract drawings and paintings are made compositely to create single works.
The representational paintings are like collages in that they are composed from various source images, but are painted in a more representationally cohesive manner to depict scenes that interpret elements of the natural/visible world as they might be composed according to memory, fantasy, or imagination in general.
My abstract work arose, in part, from a fascination with the lines of Ukiyo-e prints and manga illustration. Rather than lines reproduced from drawings to create multiple images, however, the lines of my abstract drawings and paintings are made compositely to create single works.
The representational paintings are like collages in that they are composed from various source images, but are painted in a more representationally cohesive manner to depict scenes that interpret elements of the natural/visible world as they might be composed according to memory, fantasy, or imagination in general.
Curriculum Vitae
Gallery Representation
November 2002 - October 2003 Ellen Kathryn Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
December 2006 – present Libertine Gallery, Austin, Texas (online only after 2008)
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2015 Bruegger's Bagels, Austin, Texas
2011 Brick Oven Restaurant, Austin, Texas
4001 Duval Salon, Austin, Texas
2010-2011 Hyde Park Bar and Grill, Austin, Texas
2009 Brick Oven Restaurant, Austin, Texas
Libertine Gallery sponsored exhibit, "Les Birds di Printemps," at The Monarch
2008 Hyde Park Bar and Grill, Austin, Texas
2005 High Cotton, Wimberly, Texas
2004 Little City Espresso Bar (Congress Avenue), Austin, Texas
2003 Hairy Situation Salon, Austin, Texas
2000 Little City Espresso Bar (Guadalupe Street), Austin, Texas
1999 Granite Café, Austin, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Atelier 1205, gallery premier show, Austin, Texas
Atelier 1205, "Japonisme à Trois," Austin, Texas
West Austin Studio Tour (guest of the Neill-Cochrane House Museum), Austin, Texas
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
Recspec Gallery, "Ex Libris," Austin, Texas
Round Rock Arts Center, "Get the Lead Out," Round Rock, Texas
Tin Whistle, Austin Texas
Texas State University Round Rock, "Abstraction," Round Rock, Texas
2017 West Austin Studio Tour (guest of the Neill-Cochrane House Museum), Austin, Texas
Georgetown Art Hop, Georgetown, Texas
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
Brick Oven Restaurant, Austin, Texas
2016 West Austin Studio Tour (guest of the Neill-Cochrane House Museum), Austin, Texas
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
Hyde Park Bar and Grill (West Gate and Hyde Park locations), Austin, Texas
East Austin Studio Tour (guest at Bercy Chen Studio)
2015 West Austin Studio Tour (guest of Saul Jerome San Juan), Austin, Texas
Brick Oven Restaurant, Austin, Texas
Irving Art Association, "Wildlife and Domestic Animal Art Exhibition," Irving, Texas
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
2014 New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
2013 New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
2012 Lytle Pressley Contemporary, Austin, Texas, “The Goldilocks Show,” organized by
Austin Art Connections
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
2011 New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
ArtForMS, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Noboro Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan, "Foreign Artists Open Exhibit" (juried, online)
Austin Art Connections, Austin, Texas, "Art that Tells a Story" (juried)
2010 Hyde Park Bar and Grill, Austin, Texas
Brocca Gallery, Austin, Texas (East Austin Studio Tour)
ArtForMS, Calgary, Albert, Canada
New Beginnings Wellness Center, Austin, Texas
2008 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, “Expo 2008” (juried)
Brocca Gallery, Austin, Texas (East Austin Studio Tour)
2007 K-Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas, “Third Coast National” (juried)
Hyde Park Bar and Grill, Austin, Texas
2006-present Libertine Gallery, Austin, Texas
2005 Perks, Wimberly, Texas
2002 Artists’ Coalition of Austin Gallery, Austin, Texas, “Austin Art Scene” (juried)
2001 Hyde Park Bar and Grill
Artists’ Coalition of Austin Gallery, Austin, Texas - “Juxtaposition” (juried)
2000 Artists’ Coalition of Austin Gallery, Austin, Texas
“Austin Art Scene” (juried)
“The Millennium Show” (juried)
1998 New Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin
Collections
My work can be found in numerous private collections in Austin, Texas as well as private and corporate collections in San Antonio, Tyler, Alpine, and Dallas, Texas; Denver and Boulder, Colorado; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Harrisonburg, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; New York City, New York; Munich, Germany; and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Publications
2018 West Austin Studio Tour Catalog
2017 West Austin Studio Tour Catalog
2016 East Austin Studio Tour Catalog
2016 West Austin Studio Tour Catalog
2015 West Austin Studio Tour Catalog
2013 Studio Visits Magazine, Vol. 22 (juried publication)
Awards and Honors
2007 Honorable Mention, “Third Coast National”
2000 Juror’s Award, “Austin Art Scene”
1998 selected participant in, “Art for Artists,” program and the University of Texas at Austin
Education
Department of Art and Art History, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. B.F.A., 1998
