My paper mosaics form a visual journal of my life, graphic souvenirs of my memories. Each serves as a journal entry, marking a moment and containing a story from my life. All of my work is derived from photos I have taken of places I have visited or lived and each incorporates an aspect of memory, journey and landscape.

My materials and tools paper, glue and scissors are simple; my technique, cutting and gluing, is simple; my creative process, however, is quite complex. My work is meticulous, time consuming, and emotionally intense. As I work, piecing together a complex arrangement of small bits I have cut from either printed or my own acrylic-painted papers, which I then glue into a realistic image of an actual place where I have been. I find myself focused on and immersed in the sensations and emotions that I experienced during the time and in the place that I am recreating. The resulting landscapes form a place-based personal narrative, a visual reminder of events and memories of moments from my life. As these memories drift through my mind they are combined with and extended beyond my personal experience through my absorption of the music, lyrics, films, paintings and photos created by others' their sounds, words and pictures now incorporated into mine.


EDUCATION:

2010 The Center for Book Arts, Artist Book Strategies: Exploring Music and Musical Scores, NYC

2003 BFA, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon

2000 Continuing Education: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Venice through Painting, Drawing, and Collage: Venice, Italy

1988 - 1989 Marylhurst College, Portland, Oregon

1982 - 1984 Portland State University, Portland, Oregon


SELECTED JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2011Group Exhibition: New Works by Northwest Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2011 New Artists and Affiliates, 'Italian Sojourns' Viridian Artists, New York City, New York

2011 16th Annual Juried Exhibit of Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination, Viridian Artists, New York City, NY

2010 Conversations with Nature: The 16th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, Portland, Oregon

2010 Solo Exhibit, Passeggiata, La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy

2010 Solo Exhibit, Bits and Pieces, Antica Macelleria Cecchini, Panzano, Italy

2010Solo Exhibit, Viste di Vignamaggio, Villa Vignamaggio, Greve in Chianti, Itally

2010 Seats to Save Lives, Oregon Partnership's Annual Gala Invitational, Portland, Oregon

2010 Art 2010, Viridian Artists, New York City, New York

2009 Annual Juried Miniature Show, Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon

2009 Conversations with Nature: The 15th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, Portland, Oregon

2008 Solo Exhibit, Momento, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2007 3-Person Exhibit, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2007 2007 Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2007 2-Person show, Guardino Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2007 Road Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2007 Oregon Visions, ArtCentric (Art Center), Corvallis, Oregon

Alumni Centennial Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft

2006/07 Portland Open Studios, Portland, Oregon

2006 Parts & Pieces, National Collage Competition, ArtCentric (Art Center), Corvallis, Oregon

2006 Waste Not Art Event, Portland, Oregon

2006 24th Annual Visual Arts Showcase 2006, Beaverton, Oregon

2005 Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2003 Emerging Artists Invitational, Cabell Center, Portland, Oregon

2003 Thesis Show, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon

2001/ 02/ 03 Juried Shows, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon


AWARDS:

2007 Merit Award Winner, 2007 Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Portland Oregon

2007 Popular Opinion Artist's Award, Oregon Visions, Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon

2006 First Place Mixed Media, 24th Annual Visual Arts Showcase
2006, Beaverton, Oregon
2006 Curator's Choice Award, Parts & Pieces, National Collage Competition, Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon


RESIDENCIES:

2010/11 La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti, Italy


PUBLICATIONS:

Studio Visit Magazine, 2008

The Oregonian, 10/2/2008, 8/12/2007

Portland Tribune, 10/10/2006

Creative Outlook, 2002



GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209

Viridian Artists, 530 West 25th Street, #407, NY, NY 10001