Painting and drawing are, for me, the manifestations of an internal reality that is deeply influenced by the physical environments in which I and generations of my family have lived. There is nostalgia in this work for a pre-industrial world unknown to us, as well as imaginative speculation about the future of nature and our place in it.
I was born in Maine, where I continue to live and work. I graduated magna cum laude from Smith College in 1981 and completed an M.F.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. Some of the residencies and awards I’ve received are: the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center; grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation; and a purchase prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. I show at the Danese-Corey Gallery in New York City.
