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Root
oil and oil pastel on wood panel
24" x 24"
2016
Seek, Sought, Soot
oil and oil pastel on canvas
12" x 12"
2016
Cake Queen
oil and oil pastel on paper
8.5" X 11"
2016
Look Here Ya See
oil and oil pastel on canvas
24" x 24"
2016
Lucky on a Snow Day
oil, oil pastel, and prisma marker on canvas
8.5" x 11"
2016
On The Porch We talk
watercolor, oil, and colored pencil on wooden board
24" x 24"
2014
Joe Pool Escape
watercolor and oil on wooden panel
12" x 12"
2015
Safe
watercolor and oil on Panel
12" x 12"
2015
Wild in the Streets
watercolor and oil on wooden panel
12" x 12"
2015
Casual Party
watercolor, oil, and oil pastel on wooden board
24" x 24"
2016
The Big Shave
Graphite on Paper
8” x 3”
2022
Fish
watercolor on wooden panel
24" x 36"
2014
After Laughter Comes Tears
oil pastel on paper
5" x 6"
2016
Never Rocky, Not Once
oil pastel on paper
5" x 8"
2016
Elaine
oil pastel on paper
36" x 48"
2016
Dusky
graphite, watercolor, and oil pastel on wooden panel
8" x 8"
2016
The Breakdown
watercolor and graphite on wooden panel
12" x 36"
2016
The Lineup
watercolor and graphite on wooden panel
12" x 36"
2016
Actions Repeated
Oil on wooden panel
12" x 28"
2016
Bound
Watcolor, Oil, Acrylic and Prisma Colors on Wood
48” x 72”
2018
Marked
Mixed Media on Canvas
12” x 48”
2014-2019
Sit
oil on wooden panel
40" x 48"
2016
Where We Occasionally Meet
oil on wooden Panel
24" x 46"
2016
Carry Me Caravan Take Me Away
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
12” x 12”
2022
Sonoran Red
Acrylic and Watercolor on Paper
16” x 20”
2022
Sonoran Blue
Acrylic and Watercolor on Paper
16” x 20”
2022
Take Me To The Tetons
Oil on Canvas
48” x 24”
2021
I’ll See You When You’re Gone
Acrylic on Paper
12” x 6”
2021
Grand Canyon 69’
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
22” x 22”
2021
For Lauren
Oil and Oil Pastel on Canvas
48” x 48”
2018
See My Boots and Barrel Legs?
Oil and Oil Pastel on Canvas
72” x 72”
2018
See My Boots and Barrel Legs?
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
5" x 7"
2016
See My Boots and Barrel Legs?
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
5" x 7"
2016
See My Boots and Barrel Legs?
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
5" x 7"
2016
June, 1966.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
Pink Mountains Majesty
Watercolor and Oil Pastel on Paper
8.5” x 11”
2018
Try Not To Look
Graphite and Oil Pastel on Paper
8.5” x 11”
2018
March, 1967.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
August, 1965.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
July, 1966.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
January, 1967.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
September, 1964.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
October, 1964.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
September, 1962.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
July, 1964.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
For Emily
5” x 7”
Watercolor and Graphite on paper
2018
July, 1966.
watercolor on paper
5" x 7"
2015
You Can Find It In the Woods
Graphite and Oil Pastel on Paper
5”x 7”
2018
Button Up Buttercup
graphite and oil pastel on paper
5” x7”
2018
It Was a Very Good Year
watercolor and graphite on paper
5” x 7”
2018
Go On Now
watercolor and oil pastel on paper
5” x 7”
2018
Turn the Lights Off When You’re Done
watercolor on paper
5” x 7”
2018
For Emily
Watercolor and Graphite on Paper
5” x 7”
2021
February, 2015.
Monoprint, watercolor on paper
14" x 20"
2015
Elaine
linoleum print, ink on paper
14" x 20"
2015
Return #1
ink and watercolor on paper
14" x 18"
2015
Return #2
ink and watercolor on paper
14" x 18"
2015
Return #3
ink and watercolor on paper
14" x 18"
2015
We Find a Way
hoop screen print, ink and watercolor on paper
14" x 18"
2015
The Understatement
dry point, ink on paper
14" x 18"
2015
Irreparable
oil on panel
5" x 36"
2014
Up and Gone
oil on wooden panel
8" x 12"
2014
Spew
oil on wood
5" x 8"
2014
Jimmy
Watercolor on Paper
16” x 20”
2023
Willis
Watercolor on Paper
10” x 10”
2023
Harry
Watercolor on Paper
18” x 18”
2023
Big Brother #1
oil and collage on panel
12" X 18"
2015
Big Brother #2
oil and collage on panel
12" X 18"
2015
Big Brother #3
oil and collage on panel
12" X 18"
2015
Old photographs and the moments they capture and fragment have always fascinated me. I have an innate yearning to synthesize layers of information that accumulate into my sense of family and self. I have become inexplicably drawn to instants captured in images that create a dialogue, sometimes by the assertion of the person photographed, but more often by creating a personal narrative in which I react to my learned history of a moment in their life. By depicting family members from photographs and altering the way in which the viewer reads them I burrow into the fluid nature of memory and its ability to distort our understanding of “truth.”
I am interested in how human presence is not fixed, while artifacts and photographs act as place markers in time. Objects and patterns can become representative of a person, relics of sorts, holding a visceral presence when one is absent due to distance or death. Just as a pattern repeats, repetitive acts occur in our daily lives that ultimately shape our identities. In my work I create an understanding of a person, or group of people, rooted in memory and place. I explore how the presence of object and pattern existing in the old photographs I have cultivated can act as catalysts of masking or presenting. Both comfort and distortion live within memory where a fixed understanding can become inconceivable. In many respects the amalgamation of the photograph, memory, and the people and places represented determine the way in which the medium is realized.
