PTH FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBIT JUNE 2022
“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape.” Frank Herbert
Thank you, District Arts Gallery for hosting my first featured artist exhibit here. I have a child's fascination for rocks and trees. I originally set my MINDSCAPES painting series to be my love letter to the great American landscape, more specifically to the geology of the Southwest, the flagged trees of the Pacific Northwest, and the rolling hills and waters of the Mid-Atlantic where I’ve lived. As I worked on this series, I read Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic “Dune” and kept watching the images sent from Mars by the Perseverance Rover. I couldn’t help being influenced by the beautiful austerity of those vast spaces as well. Eventually, MINDSCAPES evolved into a more surreal memory exploration of both the landscapes I’ve hiked and the landscapes I’ve dreamed about but may never set foot on. MINDSCAPES is a deeply personal, experimental, heavily textured mixed media series sculpted in acrylic, oil, sand, rice paper, silk, salt, sawdust, coffee, oxidized copper, Dutch gold, silver, bronze and iron on canvas, wood, and Masonite. I tried to push myself way out of my comfort zone this time and enhance the world to full contrast, in its raw materials.
Thank you, District Arts Gallery for hosting my first featured artist exhibit here. I have a child's fascination for rocks and trees. I originally set my MINDSCAPES painting series to be my love letter to the great American landscape, more specifically to the geology of the Southwest, the flagged trees of the Pacific Northwest, and the rolling hills and waters of the Mid-Atlantic where I’ve lived. As I worked on this series, I read Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic “Dune” and kept watching the images sent from Mars by the Perseverance Rover. I couldn’t help being influenced by the beautiful austerity of those vast spaces as well. Eventually, MINDSCAPES evolved into a more surreal memory exploration of both the landscapes I’ve hiked and the landscapes I’ve dreamed about but may never set foot on. MINDSCAPES is a deeply personal, experimental, heavily textured mixed media series sculpted in acrylic, oil, sand, rice paper, silk, salt, sawdust, coffee, oxidized copper, Dutch gold, silver, bronze and iron on canvas, wood, and Masonite. I tried to push myself way out of my comfort zone this time and enhance the world to full contrast, in its raw materials.