Artist Statement
Identity and Perception Series
Pushing traditional boundaries of photography, oil painting and text, I combine them to create a hybrid that confronts today's individual and societal issues in our impersonal metropolitan areas: alienation, loneliness, loss of identity, time, self-image, and how others view us.
Movement Interrupted Series
We are in a period of history where things are disintegrating and falling apart which is what my work reflects, yet I try to find the beauty in the uncertainty.
Process Statement
Identity and Perception Series
Photographing crowds of people in public places like Grand Central Station, The Met, city streets, etc. I write imaginary bios on some of the people to give them a voice, to stand out from the crowd. One-of-a-kind works.
Movement Interrupted Series
Embracing chance, I am harnessing the visual effects of data corruption glitches, by photographing my TV screen when it fragments due to uneven reception, stretching the colors, and shapes into a new format. Printed as dye sublimation on metal.
I am a mid-career artist, born and raised in Chicago, now living in California with my husband, poet and novelist Jerry Ratch.
My B.A. is from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and my M.F.A. is from the Newcomb School of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
I have had over twenty-five solo exhibitions including the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, and the Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, CA, to mention just a few.
My work is currently represented by Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV, and Shayne Gallery, Montreal, Canada. I just had a solo exhibition at Stremmel Gallery in Oct. 2019, and am currently in a juried show at the Triton Museum of Art, where my work received an award in Nov. 2019.
My work is in over 175 private, corporate, and museum collections including: The Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA, Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA, Kaiser Hospitals, and Delta Airline, JFK, NY.
Also, my work has recently been featured in ArtReveal Magazine, Edge of Humanity Magazine, Bokeh Bokeh Photo, etc. and on the cover of numerous books, and has been reviewed many times since 2000, and included in 100 Artists of the West Coast by Douglas Bullis.
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