Emigration Vl Painting

Salt Lake City, Ut. USAI am a mixed-media artist who uses painting, sculpture, and light and sound technique in the creation of works that have been called both pop and contemporary. I have exhibited in significant one-person and group shows including Out of the Land, which traveled to The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Toaster Worship, My sculptural piece included in this National exhibit, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Art at the University of Utah for their permanent collection.I have been included in both editions of Artists of Utah written by Robert S. Olpin, William C. Seifrit, and Vern Swanson (last edition 1999, published by Gibbs Smith Publisher). I was chosen as one of twenty Utah artists to be part of the Women Beyond Borders exhibit at Art Access Gallery during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. The Utah exhibit became part of an international collection including work from women in 33 countries. My work is also included in Utah Artists Project/ J. Williard Marriott Librarys (University of Utah) digitized collections of selected Utah artists.The work represents a slipping glimpse or a lateral perception that is brought to the surface of my senses and recorded on canvas. The painting or sculpture finds repetition or memory patterns that are familiar. This kind of exploration helps make sense of the literal world, revealing it to be a pattern of interdependence and dichotomy. Art brings seemingly isolated events into a larger pattern. Since my eighth grade teacher first introduced me to the language of art, I have found refuge, release and insight there. For me, art is the process of letting go.My new series of work entitled Repetition is an exploration into the primal process of repeating movements. It is an encounter with the order found in non-linear thermodynamic systems such as water, ocean, waves, wind, clouds, fire and flames. This work focuses on repetition as the source ofancient memory, as well as, the anchor of visual intrigue. Understanding the primordial satisfaction of finding reoccurrence in everything we see and experience is what has sustained humans since our beginning. The sun rising, the tide repeating, the seasons returning, the breathing of our bodies, have sustained our trust and given us comfort that we will prevail another day.