I create images that take on symbolic characteristics. These images have an emphasis on color. When color is juxtaposed it can create a powerful contrast. The colors represent both positive and negative space, which can be parallel to human emotions. What we see is not always what is. Heightening the intensity and sometimes merging the colors can cause an uneasiness that motivates expressions.
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Cirlot, the author of The Dictionary of Symbols, states, “The unique function of a symbol is that it is the language of image and emotions.” Kandinsky states, “Color is the power which directly influences the soul.” Josef Abers, Ellsworth Kelly, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Newman and Morris Louis investigated abstraction and the effect of color. They discovered multiple interpretations of the same hue depending on the colors surrounding it. Pollock. Van Gogh, Rothko and Mondrian all were also compelled by color, as am I. As an art therapist as well as an artist I have always been amazed at what powers of communication symbols and color have, depending on how they are combined and presented.
One of my intentions for creating art is to unite the symbolic images with the colors expressing a unique coding that ejects information.
2007
Saatchi Gallery in London requested to be on website
Bare Walls, Chicago
Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
2006
Chicago Art Open
Bare Walls, Chicago
George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
Highland Park Open, Highland Park, IL
2005
18th Annual Women's Works, Northwest Area Arts Council, Crystal
Lake, IL
48th International, San Diego Art Institute San Diego, CA
2004
Chicago Art Open, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago,
IL
Articulating the Intangible, McLean Project for the Arts, Alexandria, Virginia (*curator: Kurt Godwin)
76th Annual Exhibition, Harrisburg, PA
2003
MatrixArts, Sacramento, CA
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
Art of Conflict Resolution, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2002
Inclusion Arts Gallery, Chicago, IL
Savacou Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery 212, Ann Arbor, MI
2001
Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
Greeley Square Gallery, New York, NY
ANA 30 Show, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, *Juror: Peter Schjedahl (art critic of the New Yorker Magazine)
Limner Gallery, New York, NY
Judith Racht Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ. *Juror: Dr. Donald P. Kuspit (art critic for Art In America)
2000
Chicago Windy City Artists, Inc., Chicago, IL
The Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1999
Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL - Jury Panel: Diane Simpson, Alan Leder (curator throughout Illinois) and Obaji Nyamb
Chicago Art Open 1999, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
National Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
The Carnegie Art Center, New York, NY
Brickton Gallery, Park Ridge, IL
1997
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL - Juror: Ann Sass (Whitney Museum of Art, NYC)
1994
Gallery 312, Chicago, IL - Two-Person Show - * juror, Irene Siegel
