b. 1977
BFA in Painting—Kansas City Art Institute
Member—American Abstract Artists
Based in New York City
statement
My paintings seek to construct a color space with an architectural logic. A key feature of my work is the use of chromatic forms to describe a purely visual sense of place.
In the series Tone Parallel forms are abutted in ways that evoke monumental constructions—blocks of pure color interlock with systemic patterning. The surfaces are uninflected, displaying a post painterly and mirage-like visual space.
Guild for Human Music aims for an optical musicality, their shifting parts invoking clockwork-like movement. A chiming light is sought, something like the clarity of a rung bell.
The works in Love without Lovers are non-objective or, as the title suggests, disembodied. The series takes its title from an un-filmed screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, thusly these paintings could be viewed like scenes in a black and white movie.
Many Worlds' namesake interpretation of quantum mechanics alludes here to unrealized or lost art. That spirit guides the paintings overall: the sense of something familiar yet unknowable.
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Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2018
Harmonic Canon, Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Project 11, c2c Project Space, San Francisco, CA
2015
Love without Lovers, GRIDSPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Many Worlds, Associated Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Hungry Eye, Basil Hallward Gallery, Portland, OR
2008
Bestiary, Frances May, Portland, OR
2004
New Paintings, The Cube at Beco, Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Parallel Play, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY
Colored Pencil Redux, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2020
American Abstract Artists: Digital Prints, 2012-2019, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Form and Intent, Abstract Project, Paris, France
Beautiful Makers, Grand Street Studios, Brooklyn, NY
New York is Now, IS Projects at Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
Tribeca Art + Culture Salon, Barney Savage Gallery, New York, NY
The Idiosyncratic Pencil Resharpened, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Clinton, SC
2018
The Idiosyncratic Pencil, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Clinton, SC
Beyond Black and White, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Demand Curve, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
The Self on the Shelf, curated by Rob de Oude, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2015
In the Red, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
Select NYC, Transmitter Gallery at the Select Art Fair, New York, NY
In the Cloud, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
LIC Arts Open, Fine Art in Space, Queens, NY
Kaleidoscopic, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
New Work City, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Painting Center at 20, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Second Family, 2 Rivington, New York, NY
Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Salon, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
Half-Life, 241 Suydam, Brooklyn, NY
Curatorial Projects
2022
Harmony and Contrast—Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the Century, TRANSMITTER, Brooklyn, NY read the exhibition essay
2019
New York is Now, The Platforms Project, Athens, Greece
2016
Monuments in Reverse, 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Liz Nielsen—Wolf Moon, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY