Artist's Statement and Resume
The work in these pages was created from 1971 through today. Though varied in form, many of the works rely on photography's ability to stop, analyze, repeat and overlay sections of time. These discreet stoppages blur boundaries between word and image, past and present, fictional and factual, becoming the complex hybrids of contemporary multimedia.
With a sculptor's interest in three dimensional space I have often tried to make deeper and more physically engaging the thin film of light that is a photograph, to honor the still time within it by somehow putting it back into the play of a 3D space that changes in time and to connect its sensory forms to the syntax and roots of language.
My practices in art and museum exhibit design have been interwoven. In both, natural histories, understood to include the human, occupy sensory and storied layers. For instance, both method and metaphor are inspired by water’s elemental forms - ice, vapor and liquid, which may appear as lake, cloud, river, waterfall, pool, creek, bay. Captured rain paintings in turn become steles memorializing particular rainy days.
Forest light, photographed and transmitted between interleaved films may be reconfigured as leaves, deep in a forest. The words film and leaf also inspire novel connections. Landscape photography may inspire mythological recollections of our relationship to nature. The process echoes that of the museum, in its form as sacred grove, often columned by the powerful trunks of trees, containing collections of objects and their ritual use. Science and technology take their places overlaying images and the rooted meanings of words. Mutable histories germinate along the way.
Resume:
Works in video, photography and installation have been influenced by residencies at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, in the exceptionally biodiverse mountain environment of North Georgia.
I have exhibited work at:
Poem88 (Old Forest/Remnant Light, Black and White, Water Ways, Nymphs and Shepherds, Swift Creek, Jane Eyre)
MOCA GA (A Tribute to the Artists of Heath Gallery, curated by Laura C. Lieberman, Gudmund Vigtel, and John Howett), and Photo-based Work from the Permanent Collection)
Solomon Projects (White Oak, a video presentation)
The Michael C. Carlos Museum (Connections and Contradictions: Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, curated by Genevieve Arnold)
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center (Vital Signs and The Avant- Garde Revisisted, curated by Teresa Bramlette)
CGR Advisors ( collection of the work of southeastern artists, curated by Annette Cone-Skelton)
The Atlanta College of Art (Origins and Evolutions, curated by Genevieve Arnold)
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (Group Show)
The High Museum of Art (The Avant-Garde: 12 in Atlanta, curated by John Howett)
Southern Exposure, Washington Art VI, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Group Show, The Avant-Guard:Five Years Later)
Atlanta Artworkers Coalition (Temporary Works in Film)
Piedmont Arts Festival (1st Prize in sculpture, judged by Betty Parsons)
The Forrest Avenue Consortium (Installation : Day/Night, Inaugural Exhibition)
I completed my BA in art at Cornell College and my MFA in sculpture at Ohio State University. After graduate school I worked for many years as an exhibit designer for art, history and natural history museums, including Emory University, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Fernbank Science Center, the Atlanta History Center, Madison Morgan Cultural Center, Piedmont Hospital, the Florida Department of Natural Resources and the Florida Division of Archives and History.
I received a Travel for Museum Professionals grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of this museum work.
I was also involved in the Atlanta art community through writing and editorial work for Contemporary Arts Southeast and Atlanta Art Papers, now Art Papers.
Circle B Press has published my poems in Parts/Pieces/Fragments and Sentinel Views.