Drawing on my experimental career as an academic neuroscientist, my conceptual porcelain works and gestural abstract works revolve around contemporary, representational and non-representational forms. My porcelain work includes slip-casts of delicate objects and slip-casts of self-made molds, both requiring continued experimentation. My draw to porcelain is related to its fragility and transparency, and the preservation of fine detail. Oil and cold wax can yield some similar visual effects through the use of transparency, as well as textural and photographic details. My evolving artistic images derive from my intrinsic responses to my life and environment and is also influenced by contemporary social justice issues. This range of internalized emotions is expressed and continuously revised using a variety of experimental tools to create provocative slip-cast porcelain sculptures, as well as abstract oil and cold wax paintings, as well as integrating these two approaches.
My education and career developed in the early seventies in institutions throughout the Midwest. I moved to Detroit, MI in 1978 and since 2011 live in Ann Arbor, MI., where I have trained with regional and national artists in diverse media, currently focused on ceramics, and oil and cold wax.
My work has appeared in numerous juried and curated exhibitions including with the local Ann Arbor Women Artists group, the Michigan Ceramic Arts Association (MCAA) exhibitions in 2017, where I was named a Featured Emerging Artist; and its 2020 Biennial Exhibition. The Detroit Free Press highlighted my 2017 ArtPrize 9 submission: Bag Ladies Votive. Filii Fragiles, a large scale 3D, slip-cast porcelain work was exhibited at ArtPrize10. My slipcast porcelain sculptures were also a Second Selection in the COCA (Center of Contemporary Artists) Project 2020, Rome, Italy. and recently Children 2021, in Gallerium, the Biafarin Online Exhibtion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
