I am a visual artist living and working in DC and best known for abstract yet allusory large-scale paintings of people engaged in communal activities.

I research and document my topics, often creating digital sketches, adding and subtracting images and manipulating the composition and intensity of color until I have a dense, saturated starting point for the paintings. Layers of transparent oil washes on canvas become the base for my gestural brushwork. I slowly build a fluid, vibrant surface that conveys both beauty and tension. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Irreplaceable Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

2019 Chill Out, Schlesinger Arts Center, Alexandria, VA

2019 Jeopardy, Studio Gallery, WDC

2018 The Clinical Center Art Program, NIH, Bethesda, MD

2018 New Paintings, Studio Gallery, WDC

2016 Relaxed States, Studio Gallery, WDC

2014 Intimate Feasts, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 2nd Annual DMV Exhibition, Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, WDC

2022 Fragile Beauty, DCCAH, WDC

2022 Wild Animal Drawing/Painting Exhibition, Anaba Project, Bethesda, MD

2022 Regional Juried Exhibition, Hill Center at the Old Navy Hospital, WDC

2021 Art Optimism, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

2021 100 Years in the Present, Glen Echo Galleries, Glen Echo, MD

2019 16th Annual Transformer Auction, Corcoran School of the Arts, WDC

2019 VidArt Silent Auction & Benefit, Art Museum of the Americas, WDC

2019 Athenaeum Invitational, Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

2019 Strictly Painting 12, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2019 Crisis Mode: Endangered Earth, Zenith Gallery, WDC

2019 By the Tracks, Art Enables, WDC

2018 One House, BlackRock Center for the Arts

2018 15th Annual Transformer Auction, Corcoran School of the Arts, WDC

2018 Alchemical Vessels, Benefit, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, WDC

2018 What Feminism Looks Like, Exhibition & Auction, DCAC, WDC

2017 One House, Touchstone Gallery, WDC

2017 Resist, Zenith Gallery, WDC

2017 Art of Engagement, Touchstone Gallery, WDC

2017 Strictly Painting 11, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2017 Radius250 2017, artspace, Richmond, VA

2017 Escape, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center, Solomons Island, MD

2017 Catalyzed, Studio Gallery, WDC

2017 Alchemical Vessels, Benefit, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, WDC

2016 Flesh + Bone ll, Hillyer Art Space, WDC

2015 Relaxed States, Studio Gallery, WDC

2015 Alchemical Vessels, Benefit, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, WDC  

2014 Surface Ten, Studio 1469, WDC

2014 Intimate Feasts, Studio Gallery, WDC

2012 5x5(x5), Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2009 Strictly Painting 9, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

COLLECTIONS

“Washingtonia", DCCAH Art Bank Collection, Washington, DC

Art and Healing Program, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax, VA

AWARDS 

2022 Juried Exhibition Grant (JEG), DCCAH

2021 Arts and Humanities Fellowship, DCCAH

2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship, DCCAH

2018 Merit-based Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center

2017 Juror’s Award/Anne Reeve, Strictly Painting 11

2017 Juror’s Award/Marybeth Kelley, Escape, Annmarie Art Center, Solomons Island, MD

2009 Linda and Douglas Rosenbaum Scholarship, Corcoran College of Art + Design

PRESS

East City Art, Eric Hope, July 8, 2019, Strictly Painting 12 at McLean Project for the Arts

Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, May 20, 2019, In the galleries: Creatures under existential threat

Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, August 23, 2017, Resist

McLean Connection, Eden Brown, June 28, 2017, House Paint and Risk Takers

EDUCATION 

2006 - 2009 Painting, Continuing Education, Corcoran College of Art + Design  

1981 B.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, University of Kansas 

AFFILIATIONS 

Studio Gallery, Washington, DC 

DCAC, Washington, DC

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

Artwatch, Washington, DC