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Two Weeks in March, Two Weeks in April

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:March 25, 2018
  • Post category:contemporary American craft/drawing/national media/tarp series/Uncategorized

Last year at this time, I was channeling worry and frustration about our political scene into my artwork, a thematic departure from my usual work. An avid consumer of print…

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Snow Tarp

  • Post author:admin
  • Post published:February 13, 2018
  • Post category:Art cloth/contemporary American craft/mixed media art/natural world/surface design/Surface Design Association/tarp series

Unlike last year, cold temperatures and snow have been the story for this winter. Always interesting to see how snow changes the balance of color, of white to black, of…

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Pentaculum 2018: Red, for Sorrow and Renewal

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  • Post published:January 7, 2018
  • Post category:artist residencies/contemporary American craft/drawing/handpainting/Surface Design Association/tarp series/travel

In November 2016, Gatlinburg, Tennessee suffered a devastating fire that destroyed hundreds of homes, businesses and tree-covered acreage.  As news broke on social media, we watched the unfolding story as…

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Tarp Series: Undercurrent 2

Tarp Series Portfolio

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  • Post published:November 5, 2017
  • Post category:handpainting/handprinting/mixed media/sculptural textiles/surface design/tarp series

In this series, I position my expressive textile paintings as tarps. Metaphorically, I see tarps as protective, versatile and adaptive. They embody the best attributes of textile with the potential…

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