statement

For me, drawing and painting are more about the way we conceptualize the world around us than capturing physical appearances. Drawing, in particular, is an effort to think directly in a visual manner. Most of my work relates to the long established genres of pictorial landscape painting and sculptural object making, but lacks any conviction that the subject matter or the physical form of the work can truly define the content. The act of drawing seems to be a way of making something exist more than it would otherwise: to see it, or perhaps "think it" into an elevated state of realness.

Many of my current works are images of communication towers in the landscape, painted or drawn on small, identical pieces of plywood shaped to resemble tablet computers, smart phones, or flat-screen televisions. As the easily-ignored physical underpinnings for our systems of capturing, disassembling, transmitting, and reassembling digital information, the towers' quiet but insistent vertical interruptions punctuate the long horizons where I live in West Texas, and in this series become the subject/object of the system itself.

bio

born: 1962, Nashville, Tennessee

education

University of California, Los Angeles, MFA, 1988
University of New Mexico, BFA, 1984

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Fort Worth Community Arts Center, punctuated equilibrium, Fort Worth, Texas, 2013
Nancy Fyfe-Cardozier Gallery, Stream 2, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, 2012
Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, stream, Lubbock, Texas, 2011

selected group shows

Maryland Federation of Art Gallery, American Landscapes: Scenes from the Americas, Annapolis, Maryland, 2014
Cole Art Center, TEXAS NATIONAL 2013, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 2013
The Gallery at Marygrove College, Collaborate, Connect, Reconnect; Andrew Martin, Sarah Nesbitt, Sadie Sheldon; Detroit, Michigan, 2013
Sylvia White Gallery, 4th Annual Juried Show, Ventura, California, 2011