Tree Stokes

This series of paintings is a distillation of an awareness I experienced during my years working with transparent watercolor. I primarily painted direct marks of puddled color. As I painted, I felt that each slow-drying puddle held its moment. The final dried mark expressed its moment in the characteristics of the pigments used and the initial flow and direction of the brush mark. The brush marks themselves mesmerized me as I watched them dry, like time locked in amber.

In this series of paintings, the brush marks themselves take precedence and build their own image, a visual record and expression of subjective moments. They are the color of moments. Each brush mark occupies its own space in time, in harmony with the others. The marks sometimes collect as fractals. The completed image they become is their shared space in time within the boundaries of a painting.

MFA Arizona State University Painting
BFA University of Connecticut Drawing and printmaking Cum Laude
BS University of Connecticut CDFR

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 LAAA/GALLERY 825, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1999 CERRO COSO COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Ridgecrest, CA
1996 ART RENTAL AND SALES GALLERY
of the LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Los Angeles, CA
1993 PARNAS GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
1990 HIMOVITZ GALLERY PAVILIONS, Sacramento, CA
1984 LOUISANA WORLD EXPOSITION, Expostion Hall, New Orleans, LA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 bG GALLERY, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
LAAA/GALLERY 825, Los Angeles, CA
2009 LAAA/GALLERY 825, Los Angeles, CA
2004 LAAA/GALLERY 825, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2003 LAAA/GALLERY 825, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1999 THRESHOLD GALLERY, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1998 THRESHOLD GALLERY, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1997 ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER, San Pedro, CA
1996 KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER, Los Angeles, CA
1995 CENTURY GALLERY, Sylmar, CA
WATTS TOWERS ART CENTER, Los Angeles, CA
CENTURY GALLERY, Sylmar, CA
1994 CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, Oakland, CA
PARNAS GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles, Ca
MERGING ONE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA
1993 ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER, San Pedro, CA
1992 MAD RIVER POST, Frank D. Gehry Edgemar Bldg, Santa M...