Sunset (silver maple), 2023.  Oil and acrylic on canvas,  54 x 72"

Summer Crush, 2023.  Oil on canvas,  28 x 44" (diptych)

Mountains, 2025.  Oil on canvas,  30 x 45"

Cissy's Garden, 2024.  Oil, acrylic, and dye on canvas,  48 x 64"

Unless we close our eyes, we can't see where we used to be anywhere, 2024.  Oil and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 48""

Almanac, 2025.  Oil on canvas,  48 x 38" 

The Birds, 2025.  Acrylic and oil on canvas, 38 x 48"

Like Life (Irises), 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas,  36 x 36".  Pit II, 2024.  Oil and acrylic on canvas,  24 x 20"

Mock Orange, 2025.  Oil and acrylic on canvas,  36 x 36"

Moonstruck, 2023.  Watercolor, india ink, dye, and acrylic gouache on mulberry paper. 34 x 27" 

Ekstasis, 2023.  Watercolor, india ink, colored pencil, and acrylic gouache on Shiroishi washi and Stonehenge paper. 34 x 27" ​​​​​​​

Briar Hearts, 2023.  Colored pencil and gouache on paper,  22 x 22"

, Shedding, 2023.  Colored pencil on paper,  22 x 22" 

Vespertine, 2023. Acrylic gouache, india ink, walnut ink and watercolor on mulberry paper; quilted. 44 x 70"

Janus, 2022.  Oil on canvas,  73 x 54" 

Coronarius, 2023.  Oil on canvas,  72 x 54" 

Windows, 2023. Oil on canvas,  24 x 20". 

Tricksters

Installation shot of two-person exhibition with sculptor Josh Johnson at Marxhausen Gallery, Concordia University Nebraska, 2024

Reflectors, 2023.  Watercolor on paper.  18 x 24" framed.

Bush Light, 2022. Colored Pencil on Stonehenge paper, 16 x 20" framed

My work explores human interpretations and experiences in landscape. My recent series,”Yard Times,” follows my shifting awareness within landscape, turning my creative attention to my backyard, a category of place with which I’ve has developed a new relationship during the Covid-19 pandemic. While global societies during this public health crisis came as close to a truly shared experience than ever before, most people’s physical worlds shrank considerably. Like many folks, I spent a lot of time in my backyard over the last four years, and have come to appreciate how my activities there became a primary way to mark time and derive meaning in an era of pandemic, climate disaster, and political upheaval.

Thinking through cycles of the moon, pin oaks, an overgrown mock orange bush, and stuff on the ground, my attention has shifted to small subjects in her immediate environment that have taken on poetic or portentous qualities, creating a sort of ‘backyard mythology.’ As such, this series explores catastrophe and routine, particularly how people respond when catastrophe seems to become routine. The ritual backyard campfires my friends and loved ones sit at have become a way to mark life happening between what seems an endlessly dire series of current events.
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