Early in life, the woods near my home became my refuge, my hideaway, my playground, my sanctuary.

Today, the woods are my practice.

I have come to recognize that there is no true distinction between “us” and nature — we are all part of the same web of life. In my work, the organic environment becomes a metaphor for my need to belong, to root, to ground. Line, which is prominent in my art, is the ultimate connector. It is seen throughout nature — in the roots of trees, mycelium networks, protective canopies and how everything learns from and supports one another.

When we lose our connection to nature, we lose the connection to ourselves.

I seek to synthesize sometimes-disparate elements into an organic whole through a combination of painting, photography and assemblage. Natural materials such as straw, earth, bamboo, clay and plant roots become a reference for the temporality and cycles of life, death, decay and rebirth. Lead and rubber are incorporated for their malleability, strength and resilience. They are dense materials, heavy enough to bear the burden of life yet pliable enough to adapt.

My process of discovery and desire to not make the work too precious allows me to construct and deconstruct the work, making way for the possibility of new and unexpected images to come forth—sometimes a body fragment or figure enmeshed in the environment. I find art-making a continuous intuitive process that brings me closer to myself and the world.
 

I bring to my work more than 30 years’ experience as an artist, contemporary art curator, art therapist and art educator. I have provided curatorial and art consulting services to a range of international and cultural organizations, including Art Works for Change, The Natural World Museum, the Dalai Lama Foundation, United Nations, The World Bank, International Finance Corporation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. I hold a Master of Art Therapy degree (George Washington University) and a Master of Fine Arts degree (University of Maryland).

 

I have been exhibiting my artwork internationally since 1998.

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EXHIBITIONS

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Solo Shows

• Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD

• District Fine Arts, Washington, DC

• Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

• Vartai Galerija, Vilnius, Lithuania

• Galerija 86, Lodz, Poland

• Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC

• Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

• Casements Cultural Center, “Uprooting, Rerooting” Rockefeller Estate, Ormond Beach, Florida

• Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

• Kathleen McLean Studio Invitational, Berkeley, CA

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Group Shows

• University of Alabama, “Firsts, Personal & Historical”

• Jewish Museum of San Francisco, “Making Change”

• Fine Art Rafael Vostell, ART/Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

• The Artists’ Museum, Invitational Group Show, Lodz, Poland

• School 33, “Three Views, James Agard, Peter Ivanoff and Randy Rosenberg”, Baltimore, Maryland

• Atlantic Center for the Arts, “InsideOut” New Smyrna Beach, Florida

• District Fine Arts, Washington, DC

• SMALL WORKS, invitational, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC

• Denise Bibro Fine Art, “The Lyrical, the Expressionist, and the Poetic,” curated by Michael Walls, New York, NY

• World Bank, “Introductions” Washington, DC

• A.I.R. Gallery, “Biennial Exhibition”, curated by Charlotta Kotik, former Chief Curator of Contemporary Painting at Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

• 1708 Gallery, “New Faces”, Three-person Show, Richmond, Virginia

• Emerson Gallery, "Strictly Painting Show," curated by Ashley Kistler, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia

• Lichtundfire Gallery, "Integral" NYC

• M. David Gallery, Summer Invitational, curated by Molly Zuckerman Hartung

• Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "A Woven Underworld"

• Epperson Gallery, "Urban Landscape" Crockett, CA

• Upstate Art Weekend 2023, Judy Pfaff Compound, Tivoli, NY

• Upstate Art Weekend 2024, Rhinebeck, NY with Belen Millan and Mary Mattingly

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Socially Engaged Projects and Commissions

• AWARE/OWARE Game, created for Freedom to Create, Cape Town, South Africa

• The True Stories Project: Sex Trafficking in Oakland and Kathmandu, created wtih Girls Inc and Siddhartha Gallery and Foundation, Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal

• BioHarmonious; online game, developed for Nature's Toolbox exhibition with recent graduates from Chicago Columbia College’s Department of Interactive Arts and Media, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois; Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah; and the Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas.

• The Nature of Cities, created with Zoetrope Aubry Production, United Nations Pavilion, Shanghai Expo, China

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Fellowships and Artist Residencies

• Loft Nota Bene, Fellowship, Cadaqués, Spain

• Temporary4HERE 2019 Arts Festival and Residency, Cavallerizza Reale, Turin, Italy UNESCO Heritage Site

• Centre Pompadour: Neo-Feminism Laboratory, Residency, Ercourt, France

• Artists’ Museum, Fellowship, Lodz, Poland

• Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist Residency, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

CURATORIAL WORK

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• Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience,  Exhibition Curator
  Appleton Museum, Ocala, Florida; University of Oregon Museum of Natural  and Cultural History, Eugene, Oregon; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California

• Ethics, Excess, Extinction, Exhibition Curator
  El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

• The True Stories Project, Project Artist and Designer
  Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal

• Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention, Exhibition Curator
  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois; Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas; Leonardo Museum of Art Science and Technology, Salt Lake City, Utah; and American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC          

• Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Exhibition Curator
  Stenerson Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo; UCSD Art Museum, San Diego, California;  Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Mexico; Del Chopo, Mexico City; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Tulane University Newcomb Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana; Redline, Denver, Colorado; Calgary Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada;  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; Johannesburg Art Gallery , Johannesburg, South Africa; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain; French Cultural Center, Dakar, Senegal

• AWARE/OWARE Game for Female Empowerment, Exhibition Curator
  Designer and Director, Cape Town, South Africa, COP Durban, South Africa; Community within Kolda region, Senegal; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa      

• The Nature of Cities, Exhibition Curator
  UN Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010, China

• Millions of Pieces: Only One Puzzle, Exhibition Curator for United Nations
  City of Kigali, Rwanda     

• Melting Ice/A Hot Topic: Envisioning Change, Exhibition Curator
  Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo; BOZAR, Brussels; Ministry of Culture, Monaco; The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

• Moving Towards a Balanced Earth; Kick the Carbon Habit, Exhibition Curator
  National Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

• Unlearning Intolerance; Art, Attitudes and the Environment, Exhibition Curator for United Nations, New York

• The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Exhibition Curator
  UCLA Fowler Museum, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California; Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois; Rubin Museum of Art, New York; Emory University Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; Tomorrowland, Tokyo, Japan; Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain; The Frost Museum, Florida International University, Florida; Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania; Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas