Fall Garden, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2023, Private Collection
Holding Space
This body of work was created between 2022-2023 for my solo show, Holding Space, at Wally Workman Gallery. As we all seek to define ourselves, the landscapes around us offer themselves up as a mirror. Through our surroundings we feel out the boundaries of our existence, the spaces that contain us. These landscapes are what hold my space, the patterns, sights, and feelings of my daily life.
These works are separated into three different spaces: the Neighborhood, the Garden, and the Wild. This first series of paintings, the Garden are works are inspired by my backyard garden, which ebbs and flows through periods of my own obsession and neglect. In these garden-scapes the storm of life has been left to grow uninhibited resulting in a beautiful and sometimes overwhelming chaos.
Chaos Geranium, 11 x 14”, acryilc on sintra, 2022
A Pleasant Arrangement, 11 x 14”, acrylic on sintra, 2022, Private Collection
Moods of a Bleeding Heart: Dancing, 11 x 14”, acrylic on sintra, 2022 Private Collection
Moods of a Bleeding Heart: Bleeding, 11 x 14”, acrylic on sintra, 2022
Rain-Wet: Hosta and Vinca, 30 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2021, Private Collection
Late Summer Nasturtium and Unmown Grass, 30 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2021, Private Collection
The Wild: inspired by the varied wilderness of Vermont, places of magic, mystery, and reflection.
Moonrise Over the North Branch, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2023
How to be a Tree 1, 20 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2023
How to be a Tree 2, 20 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2023
Late October Energy, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2022
Deep Space, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2023, Private Collection
Little River, 20 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2023, Private Collection
Riverbed, 20 x 30”, acrylic on panel, 2023
The Neighborhood is where we live: the familiar and the habitual, the landscapes we tread over and over again. While anchored in reality, these works are fantastical too, influenced by hazy bits of memory, sometimes one clear moment and at other times an amalgamation of a hundred similar moments.
The Neighborhood, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2023
Homecoming, 36 x 48”, acrylic on panel, 2023, Private Collection
At Shiva for Ellen, 11 x 14”, acrylic on panel, 2022
Early Bedtime, 11 x 14”, acrylic on panel, 2022
The Lonely Hydrangea, 11 x 14”, acrylic on panel, 2023
Golden Hour B-ball, 11 x 14”, acrylic on panel, 2022