While I create it, my work is about
life in the present moment.  As the
paint dries and as it is viewed, it is more an accumulation of short-term
memories.  Didn’t sleep last
night, Just now I am drinking my tea, Long Phone Conversation, Soup for Lunch,
Stubbed my toe, Starting to get a sore throat, More Daylight, Keep having to
pee, Elections, Waiting for the G Train… I
honor these experiences and seemingly insignificant events for the role that
they play and the impact they have on, my ever-changing, present moment.  Abstracting and re-presenting these
events through paint I have been able to hold on to a little longer, understand
a little better, and have physical evidence of, my existence.

My interest in memory has been
fueled by my personal experience with memory loss.  My father has been diagnosed with a brain disorder that has
left him with no short-term memory. Through his experience I have gained both
an interest in and an appreciation for the mundane, and both short and
long-term memories.   My
painting practice hopes to answer questions that have grown out of this
interest and appreciation.  When do
our daily experiences transform into our recollections of the past?  How much of our long-term memory is a
sum of small insignificant events? 
Is this whole greater then the sum of its parts?  How do short and long term memory
influence each other?  If
short-term memory is lost, is it only a matter of time before we loose our
long-term memory?   And
ultimately, what is the impact of memory on our concept of our selves and our
placement within the world.

Education

MFA,
Painting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006                   

BFA, 2-D Studies, Bowling Green State University, 2003

BS,
Art Therapy, Bowling Green State University, 2003

Selected
Exhibitions 

(2005-2009)

      Still Biting the
Inside of my Lip, Tin Lark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA        

      Almost Noon
Already, Crisp-Ellert Museum, Flagler College, St.Augustine, FL     

      Paintings for a
Recession, Sit and Wonder Cafe, Brooklyn, NY                 

      Studio Visit
Magazine,  Exhibition in Print,
Winter 2009 Edition

      Intro Show, MadArts
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

      Manifest Seven,
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH         

      Lucky Draw, Sculpture
Center, Queens, NY

      Paintpresent, Lexington
Art League, Lexington, KY

      Inspired, Tin
Lark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

      Abstraction
Now, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, Garden City, NY

      Collect, Nevica
Project, www.Nevicaproject.org

      Fresh StART, Arena
1 Gallery at the Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica, CA

      20x200, Jen
Bekman Gallery, Print Edition October, 2008, New York, NY

      Dialogues, Shy
Rabbit Contemporary Art, Pagosa Springs, CO

      Memorandum, Rabbithole
Studios, Brooklyn, NY          

      Spring Show, MadArts,
Broooklyn, NY

      Sketch Detail, Curated
by Barry Kostrinsky,

            
Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Center, New York, NY

       Super
Happy Fun Time; Art as Play, Curated by Kate Hill Cantrill,

            
Rabbit Hole Studios, Brooklyn, NY

       New Work,
Three Person Show, Gallery at 38 Cameron, Cambridge, MA

       4^th
Annual Women’s Caucus for Art International Video Shorts Festival,

           
Barnard College, New York, NY, Juried by Sheryl Mousley, Walker Art
Center

      International
Awards Exhibition, Gallery Twenty-Four, Berlin, Germany

      26^th
Annual EXPO Juried Competition, 
B.J.Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY,

            
Juried by Alexandra Schwartz (MOMA)

      Adam’s Rib and
Eve’s Hair in the Air, SOHO20, New York, NY

            
Juried by Melissa Messina, Brooklyn Museum

       Woman
Made 10^th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

       Night of
1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY

       Boston
Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, Juried by  

             
Kiki Smith, Gideon Bok and Laura Donaldson

       
Just Now I am Drinking My Tea, Herter Gallery, Solo Show

        CAA
Regional MFA Exhibition, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA, Group Show

        Exchange
Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, Group Show

        New
Directions 06’, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Juried National

       
Forms, Figures, Symbols, Shy Rabbit, Pagosa Springs, CO, Juried,
National

        8^th
Annual Abstraction Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE,        

            
Juried, International

        HCC
Faculty Show, Open Square, Holyoke, MA

        Art
Interview 6^th Quarterly Online International Exhibition,

              
www.art-interview.com, Juried
International

        Team
Red Ryder, Gallery TK, Northampton, MA, Group Show

        Turns
of Mind, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA, Group Show                                                                                     

        Public
Art Commission, Amherst, MA, Juried Regional                                                                  

        ArtShow
Pittsfield, Pittsfield, MA, Juried National  

        GASA
2005, Northampton, MA, Group Show (Co-Curator)                                                                   
                      

       
UMASS Faculty Show, Amherst, MA Group Show                                                                         

        Mid-way
Show, Student Union Gallery, Amherst, MA, Group Show

Awards, Honors and Residencies

· Vermont Studio Center, 2007

· Jentel Artist Residency, 2007

· Art Interview Online, 2^nd Place
International Award

· Colman Fellowship, 2006

· KHN Center for the Arts, Residency, 2006

· Joan Mitchell Fellowship Nomination, 2006

· Amherst Public Arts Commission, Amherst, MA, 2005