about

I’m a by-product of Post-Democratic America…it is within this paradigm shift that I struggle to secure intellectual understanding of the social and political environment around me. From this place, I began a late-in-life pursuit of art as a tool for creating dialogue or Visual Discourse.

The hardness of the topics, oppositions of opinions, are softened and made approachable by seeing them in an art form. Disarming, yet approachable. I develop work in the Assemblage genre; juxtaposing ordinary objects over the shape of a flag and utilizing encaustic wax to create and bind concept and object. Message supersedes aesthetic.

After a decade of social-political focus, I have begun a phase of exploration more focused on aesthetic and material experimentation: “new work.” I shift from hot wax to cold wax with an integration of objects and materials. I’m playing, I’m finding what calls me. And I moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico just to make sure the change was real.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Marine Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Master of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Estructura Ausente 2.0, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, QRO Mexico
2023 Off The Wall, Berlin Bar & Bistro + Art Room, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
2023 Visionarias, Fundacíon Casa Europa, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
2017 Embedded Messages: Truth, Justice and the American Way, The Art Center, Chicago IL
2016 Embedded Messages: Truth, Justice and the American Way, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
2016 United Artists, Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art, Washington, DC
2015 Annual ACE Exhibition, Juried by Christian Hohmann, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2015 Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2015 Encaustic Exhibition, Venus Studio, Palm Desert, CA
2013 Annual ACE Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Bibliography

Pleasant, Amy. Embedded Messages, Debating the Dream: Truth, Justice and the American Way,

The Huffington Post February 17, 2017

Gomez, Sergio. Eight Female Artists Throw Political Punches, Amplified Art Network, February 1, 2017
Jenkins, Mark. In the galleries: Trump in poncho and sombrero, Clinton as a suffragette, Washington Post, October 22, 2016
Spraol, Suzzanne. Current events at the heart of Pepper Art Gallery’s ‘Embedded Messages’, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Awards

2015 Best In Show, Annual ACE Exhibition, Juried by Christian Hohmann, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Affiliations

Board of Directors, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, New York 1992
Member, Palm Springs Art Council 2013-current