Artist Statement
My recent drawings are meditations on the fractured, free-floating and chaotic condition of modern memory.  They are epic in scale and intricate in execution.  The multitude of marks creates a vertiginous, unsettling sense of space; images shift, dissolve and reorganize themselves, questioning assumptions about place and the notion of stability. Embedded in the drawings are excerpts of historical and contemporary images (mostly of battles and soldiers); these small fragments are nearly obscured by a flood of other detail, as if the drawing itself is trying to buffer the blows of violence.  Drawings such as spillway (2006) share some characteristics with maps or aerial imagery.  Spillway is the first drawing of a 3-4 year project - the creation of a vastly oversized atlas comprised of twenty-four new drawings. Borderlands (the working title for this project) will explore the relationship between remembering and forgetting; it will blur the boundary between drawing and sculpture and the imagery will blend the real with the invented, creating spaces which hover between the known and the unknown.  The drawings in this atlas will have the opposite function of conventional maps – instead of helping you find your way, these pages will help you get lost. 

Artist Bio / CV

EDUCATION

2002-2004         Glasgow School of Art: Master of Fine Arts

1989-1991         University of Maine:  Master of Science

1984-1985         Columbia University, Teachers College: M.A.

1982-1984         New York University: Bachelor of Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

solo/two-person shows:

2007 Works on paper, ICON Contemporary Art, ME  

2007  Spillway,McCoy Gallery,MerrimackCollege,MA  

2006 Free Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art

2006 Serving Time, Maine State House, Augusta, ME

2005Worlds Apart: Drawings, ICON Contemporary Art,  ME

2002  Prints and Drawings, ICON Contemporary Art, , ME          

2000  Recent Drawings, ICON Contemporary Art, ME      

2000  From the Thicket, CMCA  

group shows:

2007  Grayscale, Plane Space, New York, NY            

2006  Skowhegan at 60, CMCA,Rockport, ME                   

2006  Maine Print Project, CMCA, Rockport, ME                       

2006  ArtFutures Scotland, Millenium Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland    

2005  From Here to There, Sowaka Gallery, Kyoto Japan                  

2004  International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College, New York City, NY                                                                               

2004   BraveArt, Atrium Gallery, London, UK                         

2004     MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland  

2003    Contemporary Drawing, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and X’ian Academy of Art, X’ian, China  

upcoming:                                                                                       

Spring 2008 Coleman Burke Gallery, Brunswick, ME (solo)             

March 2008   Plane Space, New York, NY(group) 

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2006   Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant                             

2005     Individual Artist Fellowship: Maine Arts Commission  

2003   Horace W. Goldsmith Scholarship: Glasgow School of Art                                                                                             

2001    Bingham Fellowship: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture                                                                                    

2001       UcrossFoundation Residency                                                                                    

2000, 1999        Vermont Studio Center Residency