Connections 2 (2005)
About the Artist:
My work focuses on the poetic and uses analogy, symbolism and metaphor to
convey some element of myself. Almost all my work is autobiographical in
nature, using manmade and natural symbols that represent either what is
besetting me the time, or what I am experiencing in my survival. Being a
writer also has me using both poetry and painting to focus in on an idea,
approaching it from different areas of the brain. Often my poetry is placed
alongside my painting to complete the idea the idea in a gallery setting.
Artist's Statement:
In Duality of Floating, from the following Ascendant Series, I find
myself neither here nor there. I am perhaps the water plants, floating on a
temporary, evaporative support, or their reflection, floating in a sky that
may be clearing or may be clouding up.
In water, I am alive, green, healthy. In reflection, I am shadowed, dark,
upside-down.
Exhibitions:
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2005 |
"Life at Fifty" and "Ascendant"
shown in "Spectrum: The Human Possibilities",
Rainbow Regional Community Centre", Spokane, Oregon |
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2005 |
"Sunflowers on Glass",
Pacific Northwest Annual, Erb Memorial Union,
University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon |
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2005 |
"Man on a Bridge" shown in
Colombia County Council of the Arts,
Juried Art Show, Hudson, New York
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2005 |
"Duality of Floating" shown in
Mt. Scott Art Center's "Summer in Winter"
International Art Show,
Portland Oregon |
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2004 |
Kennedy House Fine Art Gallery,
Streetsville, ON |
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2004 |
"A Place at the Table"
& "Organic Burst",
AAUW Art Show, Museum of Art,
Grants Pass, OR
"A Place at the Table" 2nd Place |
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2004 |
"Cut From the Same",
Juried exhibit, "Art About Wine",
Umqua Valley Art Center, Roseburg, OR |
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2004 |
Aarundell Gallery, Talent, OR |
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2004 |
"A Place At The Table",
ArtQuest Annual, Banana factory Gallery, Bethlehem, PA |
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2004 |
"Peppered", Open Market art show,
Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ |
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2003 |
"Raindrops in Autumn" & "Negotiating
The Forest" shown by invitation,
at "Seeing Circles,
Tangling Triangles", Jacksonville, OR |
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2003 |
"Rapt", Long Beach State University
International ABD18 Art Show, Long Beach, CA |
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2003 |
"Reflecting Family" and "Change In
Weather" in Grants Pass Museum's
56th Annual AAUW So. OR.
Art Show, Grants Pass, OR |
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2003 |
One-man show at OJAC Gallery, Jacksonville, OR |
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2003 |
Book "Future Present" published by Xlibris,
division of Random House
containing 104 color repros of paintings and 18 poems, Philadelphia, PA
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Poetry:
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2005 |
"Awaiting Butterflies", poem published
in anthology "Labours of Love",
Noble House, Ltd., London, England |
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2005 |
"My Life at Fifty" poem published
in anthology "Best Poems and Poets of 2004",
International Library of Poetry, Owings Mills MD |
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2001 |
"Balance of Strength" poem, Editor's
Choice Award and published in
"Poetry's Elite: The Best Poets of 2000",
Anthology of International Library of Poetry, Owings Mills, MD
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2000 |
"Heart of Light", poem included in
"America at the Millennium, The Best Poems and
Poets of the 20th Century", Anthology of International Library of Poetry,
Owings Mills, MD
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Honours and Awards:
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1998 - 2005 |
Profiled in "Who's Who in the World",
Marquis Publishers, 22nd Edition, New Providence, NJ |
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1998 - 2005 |
Profiled in Who's Who in America
Marquis Publishers,
60th Edition, New Providence, NJ |
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1998 |
Lambda Award for Excellence in Art from LCCA,
Ashland, OR |
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1997 |
Lambda Award for Excellence in Art from LCCA,
Ashland, OR |
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1998 |
Lambda Award for Excellence in Literature
from LCCA, Ashland, OR |
