The impetus for my work is a combination of autobiography and exploring the process of painting. Experimenting with different line qualities and layers is an integral part of this process, which involves a lot of drawing. I love to mix intuitive mark-making with somewhat more calculated areas. My goal is for the finished work to strike a balance of structure and accident, restraint and recklessness, deliberation and instinct. This is a balance that resonates with me as being “truthful” and is also perhaps a parallel for my life philosophy.

Time, memory, and desire are themes that crop up repeatedly in my work. While my subject matter references both the figure and landscape, it always contains a prevailing sense of ambiguity. It is this feeling of mystery that intrigues me and propels me on to make new images.

I work in series and these bodies of work often diverge quite a bit from each other. At the moment, I am captivated with creating a hybrid of geometric forms and expressive brushwork, with an unexpected color palette. Each painting teaches me something new and continues a cycle of discovery and of surprising myself. That is my favorite feeling in the studio.

EDUCATION
2002 MFA- Painting and Printmaking, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2000 BA- Studio Art, English, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

ONE/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010 Geometric Constructs, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2010 Works on Paper and Panel, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2010 Hexagons, Grids & Webs, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
2009 building/burning/growing- part II, Siskate Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008 building/burning/growing, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2007 Bridging the Inner Landscape, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2006 Mixed Media, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
2006 New Mixed Media Works, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2005 New Drawings, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2005 Immediacy, Vignettes, Raleigh, NC
2005 Drawing on the Moment, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2004 Marked Time, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2003 Blind Lines, The Artscenter, Carrboro, NC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Unwrap Your Mind, THAT Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Color Fields, Forms & Fractures, if ART Gallery, Columbia SC
2010 Papergirl Project, Dugg Dugg, Charlotte, NC
2010 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC (Juror, John Beerman)
2009 Works on Paper, Gallery Pantone 278, Charlotte, NC
2009 Carolina's Got Art, Juried Exhibition, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC (Juror, Brice Brown)
2009 New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print #82 (Southern edition), The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA (Curator, Ron Platt)
2008 Landscape, Hallway Projects, San Francisco, CA
2008 North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC (Juror, Dr. Larry Wheeler)
2007 Tangible Gestures, three-person exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC (Curator, Leah Stoddard)
2007 The Kindness of Strangers, Helm Gallery, Tacoma , WA
2007 Letters, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, England UK
2007 New Works: Annual Juried Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2006 Drawing x 3 Artists, Vignettes, Raleigh, NC
2006 Everything Falls Apart, Nested, Carrboro, NC
2006 Introductions '06, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 New and Hot, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC
2006 New Works: Annual Juried Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2005 New Members Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh NC
2004 Abstraction, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC
2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation 02-03 Grant Recipients Exhibition, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2004 The Triangle's Best Art - Part II, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2004 Surface Matters, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC (Curator, Joie Lassiter)
2003 Mid-Winter Paper, Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2003 Three Emerging Artists, Duke University Law School, Durham, NC
2002 Coterie Treize, Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2002 Selected Works, Red Hat Office Building, Raleigh, NC
2002 New Works, Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2001 Graduate Student Exhibition, McIver Gallery, UNC-Greensboro, NC
2000 NC Women Artists: 20th Century Trends, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2000 Meredith Faculty Exhibition, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2006 Discovering Contemporary Art in the Carolinas, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC (Curator, Mark Sloan)
2004 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (Curator, Ron Platt)
2002 The Altered Landscape, Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, NC
2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS
2009 Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency Fellowship
2007 Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency Fellowship
2005 Regional Artist Project Grant, United Arts Council
2005 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Grant
2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Award
00/02 Graduate Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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GALLERY AFFILIATION
Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC