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After spending the winter of 2024 taking pictures of the drying leaves and flowers on my studio table, which turned into the photograph series Leaves and Flowers 1-100, 2023-24, I could only imagine myself drawing from the photographs. I am obsessed with natural form because I live in a city. And I want to make…
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The first time my work was exhibited at the CrossMackenzie Gallery was in 2012 when the gallery was located on R Street in the DuPont Circle neighborhood. The drawing introducing this post was hung at the back of the long hallway-like space. The drawing invited the viewer to come to it. No one could absorb…
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This drawing was created out of the desire to return to the studio after a two-week bout with Covid. Being sick with the virus was the first and only time I had contracted it. The format for the work deals with several elements and patterns I had already used in the past. I dove into…
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Way back when somewhere in the midst of 2023, I began the series that I thought would tell the story of my art-making since the 70s. I told the story in The Artful Mind (pages 22-31) that goes like this: In the 90s, I saw a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns in which…
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When I started to make these complicated wall-hung relief pieces, I had no idea that I would eventually title them Towards the Light. The title is a metaphor for my Mother’s death, which occurred on April 29, 1999. The twelve works are each made in three steps. The canvas was made by gluing canvas to…
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In preparing these drawings for posting, I had to put them through Photoshop in an effort to bring the images back from the depths of poor quality. In doing so, I valiantly tried to read the year written by my signature. I managed to see two years, ’77 and ’79. It made the most sense…
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A discovery after I made Coloring Book Pages 1-42 was incorporated into the title of that series. The shapes that had been isolated with black ink lines could be seen on their own viably as mere shape, unrelated to the photographic image of which they were a part. So I decided to use a fine…
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It was only after I had dismounted my installation at Installation Space in North Adams, MA that its owner informed her followers that the gallery was closing. Instead the space would be used as a revolving entity to bring visiting artists and the local arts community together. My work was chosen for the last show…
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My mother died at the age of 73 on April 29,1999. Coincidentally with her death, my entire life went sideways. My ex-husband was in China when I shared the news of her death. He said he would come back to the US for her memorial. My father picked him up at the Charleston, SC airport.…
