MAY 2021
My 18 x 24” photograph Aimless Inquiry was chosen for inclusion in The National Prize Show at Cambridge Arts, 25 Lowell Street Cambridge, MA., by juror Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator, 21c Museums. The show runs from May 11 – June 25, 2021.
JUNE 2021
I was gratified to have my work, Forgotten Songs We Never Really Knew, chosen as one of the nine pieces included in the live auction at Artrageous, The Montserrat College of Art auction. The work broke the asking price and added needed funds in support of student scholarships.
JULY-AUGUST 2021
In July 2021, my work will be featured in a three person show at FLOAT Gallery, 57 Rocky Neck Ave, in Gloucester MA. Along with Sallie Schract Strand and Susan G. Emmerson, I will show a new body of work from the Childhood series. This group of images features abstract photography, which continues to explore Geology as a metaphor for life. The many images in the series form an abstract portrait of my earliest years.
To create the work I collected stones from defining places I went to with my family. Also included were plants and flowers that I loved as a child, including cut grass for its fragrant reminder of mowed lawns.
A thick Layer of childhood photographs, including Christmas and birthday parties, aunts, uncles and defining moments was added, as well as pieces from board games, letters and cards.
After placing a set of items in a container, I freeze each separate layer to mimic the earth’s strata. The photographs are taken as the form melts, becoming all that remain of the work.
AUGUST 2021
My photographic and sculptural work will be featured with the work of three other artists at The Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, MA. The month long show runs from July 29th through August 30th.
The sculptures are taken from the series Core, Mantle, Crust.
Both the photographic and the sculptural series are seen through a geologic lens: the photographs investigate the singularity of life, while the sculptures examine its fragility and insignificance.
Thoughts on naming artwork
Posted on September 20, 2017 by Kingston Gallery
(view original and complete post at www.kingstongallery.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/thoughts-on-naming-artwork)
Gallery owners prefer that artists work have titles but deciding on one can be frustrating work for an artist.
My titles are sentence fragments taken from favorite books: those that perfectly explain in words what I am saying with my photography. It is amazing that writers, photographers and other creatives can portray the very same thoughts, as if of one mind, in such uniquely different media.
My recent photographic series, Fare Well: The Art of Ending to Childhood, employs a narrative structure with timelessness, geology, and personal family history at its core. My effort is to show the scope and immensity of one life.
To make my photographs I first build an ice sculpture filled with memorabilia pertaining to the person I am profiling. With each form I create, an individual life is celebrated in all its scope and importance.
Tinkers, the beautifully written Pulitzer Prize winning book by author Paul Harding became the source of the titles for my work of the last seven years. It is a huge story in a small volume. The Pulitzer board called the novel “a powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.”
The sentence fragments I choose as titles pair the author’s beautiful words with my abstract image, leaving room for the viewers interpretation.