More specific  information to be posted as it becomes available. Upcoming exhibitions for new works include:

June 2013:
Fragments de la Lumière at {9} The Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.
With artists Aileen Frick & Patricia Jensen
Exhibition Dates: June 7th – June 28th, 2013.
Artist Reception is June 21st from 6-9pm. This event is open to the public.

October 2013: 
Method Art Gallery in Scottsdale Arizona
Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: October 22nd – November 5th, 2013
Artist Reception is October 24th from 6-9pm. This event is open to the public.

February 2014:
Yuma Fine Arts Gallery in Yuma, Arizona
Exhibition Dates: February 14th – March 28th, 2014
Artist Reception is February 21st from 6-9pm.
Exhibit includes metalsmith artists Heidi Abrahamson, Hoss Rogers, and Catherine Rone
This event is open to the public and in conjunction the 34th Annual Yuma Symposium.

April 2014:
The Hive in Phoenix, Arizona
Exhibition Dates: April 4th – April 26th
with artist Rebecca Bergman

I’ve been taking a look at the range of my previous work in order to connect some dots. Over the last 13+ years, my work has gone through significant transitions. Below is a range of images from 2000 – 2012. The two oil paintings on the top left are from around 2000 while at college in Virginia. The top two on the right and the bottom piece on the left are mixed media pieces completed not long after I moved to Phoenix (2002 – 2005). The 2nd piece on lower left is a light box from 2006 when I first added concrete into my mixed media palette. The work shifted again in 2008 (bottom center) when I began to mold and cast the concrete art panels. The last two pieces were created in recent years and as I’ve continued the exploration of concrete as an art medium.

Each shift in the approach to my work seems to closely parallel a significant transition within my life. After recently recovering from a long-awaited hip replacement surgery, there is again an intuitive drive to recalibrate my approach – perhaps because my own physical architecture is doing the same as I continue to heal. I’m not entirely sure how this shift will impact my work just yet, so I’ve just been quietly working on small pieces in my studio. They are more like small exercises …which feel very much like my physical rehabilitation did. I find myself building upon muscle memory, incremental shifts, and exploring more ideas about adaptation.

Currently, I feel stuck and recharged all in the same breath – just like learning to use my left leg again. As I explore ideas, I find myself fixated on this quote: “…I think while appropriation has produced some interesting art work…for me, the most interesting thing is to back yourself into your own corner where no one else’s answers will fit. You will somehow have to come up with your own personal solutions to this problem that you have set for yourself because no one eles’s answers are applicable.”  – Chuck Close.