Exhibition pieces close up

Aqua Intersections - 6' x 4' (available)



Rose Intersections


Yellow Intersections with Poppy

Intersections (Artist Statement)

This work grows out of a series of questions that have formed in me during recent years. The questions have to do with dichotomies of the human experience (e.g. love and hate, peace and war, fullness and emptiness, etc.). Although these realities oppose each other, they share space in the world; and they share space in me. In the beginning I asked how such powerful paradoxes could exist. The larger force of my work, however, gained momentum after shifting my attention to explore how they affect one another through their proximity and inevitable encounter.

In the world of color, opposites on the color wheel are blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow. Combining opposing paint colors while still wet results in a mucky brown. If, however, opposing colors are set side by side instead of mixed, the result is often a powerful visual interaction that is frequently surprising. After realizing how thoroughly these color interactions held my attention, I poured all my creativity into exploring them, taking my questions of paradox with me into the work. The pieces hanging in this exhibition are some of the results of that journey.

My senior exhibition hung in Adams gallery

Gallery Reception - March 31st

Here's a map of Wheaton's campus for anyone who needs it: http://www.wheaton.edu/campusmap.html

Adams Hall is nearest to Washington St. between Union and Franklin streets. Coming from Naperville Rd. and Roosevelt Rd. go North on Naperville through Roosevelt. Turn right (East) at your first stop sign. Turn left (North) at your next stop sign (Washington). You can follow Washington over the train tracks and on to campus. Street parking is available on the East side of Washington, as well as parking in the lot surrounding Blanchard Hall.

Little ones

6 x 6 each

I'm not sure if these will go in the show or not... (available)

"Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth."
- Picasso

40 days to go...

till my show reception!

Bono, on art

"I kinda like being in the controversy. In the tension. there is this great tradition of worship but music that expresses life and wrestles tradition to the ground is absent. I want my music to do something. something positive in a negative world. I want to own up to my earthly desires and struggles. The key to art is truth... know the truth and the truth will set you free. I start my day as a writer this way. Truth is key, if not my art is a lie...."
- Bono

The latest

acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Big Green

posted earlier, but now in it's finished state!

68 days until my gallery show!

Three little ones

Each 12 x 12, acrylic and mixed media on canvas

collages in process

2007 Desktop Calendar

A group project I went in on with two other artists. Each of us has 4 different pieces in it in full color. It is the same size as a cd, and comes in a cd case that it sits in. Please comment on this post with your email address if you'd like one.

still in process...

chosen for the Wheaton College "Nonword and Upward" juried show!

What I'm working on now

not done yet...

"Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment."
- Claude Monet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller

Summer paintings

two canvases, each 16 x 20, hung end to end as one piece
currently displayed at Dreambox Gallery in Chicago

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Einstein