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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
 

  • 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

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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

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Awards

 

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

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Affiliations

 

  • Board of Directors, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, New York 1992

  • Member, Palm Springs Art Council 2013-current

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