How do we see another’s perspective — is it possible? No one sees the same color, a sense or sensation that is beyond words sometimes. The red I see is not the red you see. I think about that when I make art, no one else will see it exactly as I see it, but will they feel it — the joy, the love, the presence in each line, each drop of color? Will they know the way that each part is an exact moment, never to be again, a combination of pigment and water, the brush touches down, with more or less pressure a line from eye to hand to fingers holding and guiding, light, all there in that one small mark, that then joins all the others, finds its place in the grid, captured in the net. Each color a small story, singular and collective, lighter or darker, talking to its neighbors, voice clear. Every part is a reflection of the choice to be present: color, water, brush, surface, body, heart reaching forward to now, back, all the way back, tens of thousands of years to the impulse still visible in dark caves discovered.
Education
Winterthur Program in Early American Material Culture, Newark, DE
MA
Smith College, Northampton, MA
BA
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Woodmere Annual: 82nd Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Infinite Prayer, public art installation at Tephra ICA Art Festival in partnership with Public Art Reston, Reston, VA
2022
Art in the Open, Center for Emerging Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020
Recent Work, Higher Grounds, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Wiggles and Wings, Media Arts Council Gallery, Media, PA
2018
New Now, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
3rd St. Gallery Winter Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Recent Work, Gryphon Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
2017
We Do What We Do, Spillway Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Metamorphosis, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Elemental, Lacey&Phillips Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Improvise, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Juror: Rachel Zimmerman
2013
Installation, Lansdowne Theater, Lansdowne, PA
2012
Featured Teacher, Lounge Gallery, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Spring!, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Juror: Shelley Spector
2011
Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Creative Living Room, Swarthmore, PA
Neumann University Art Gallery, Aston, PA
2010
Sweet Mabel Folk Art Gallery, Narberth, PA
Rick’s Picks, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA
Juror: Rick Snyderman
2009
Episcopal Academy Gallery, Newtown Square, PA
Professional Experience
2012 - 2023
Teaching Artist, ArtWell, Philadelphia, PA
2019-21
Director NLArts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 - 2011
Associate Director of Policy and Community Engagement, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia, PA