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 My serious commitment to art began in earnest after a series of varied work identities. From the buying offices of Saks Fifth Avenue, to work as general legal counsel and director of marketing in the field of socially conscious investing, and then on to my most recent work as a personal fitness trainer and mom, I have worn many hats over the course of my professional career. In each of these roles, I have sought out and embraced the creative opportunities for artistic expression they offered. Additionally, I have focused much of my free time on pursuing my lifelong inclination for creative and artistic expression. However, like so many artists, the demands of my professional life and my family left inadequate time to truly devote myself to these desires. Nonetheless, all of these experiences are crucial parts of my journey of self discovery and have contributed to who I am at this moment and to the art I am now so passionate about creating. Since making the commitment to pursue art as a full time endeavor, I have grown as an artist through ongoing study with a number of teachers in different media and techniques. All of these wonderful artists and mentors have impacted my work, my expression, and my skills in profound ways. These teachers include Aparna Agrawal, John Murray, and Jason Polins for painting, Tracy Spadafora for encaustic, and Deborah Putnoi for printmaking techniques.  My art exists at the intersection of the natural landscape and the human-made environment. I am drawn to the flowing movement of organic forms, as well as the structural integrity and complexity of human-made objects. This focus extends to the patterns and graphic elements that I stumble upon throughout my day. From the vertical columns and linear formats of a newspaper layout, to the graceful beauty of a nautilus shell; from the structural grid and fenestration of an urban skyscraper, to the irregular shapes and sizes of Wellfleet oysters; from the simple, flowing form of a modern sofa, to the order and repetition of seeds on a pine cone. I find elegance and balance in the manifestations of healthy human interaction with nature in its many dimensions. I appropriate, extract and abstract these visual “finds” in my work, incorporating them and deconstructing them down to their essential elements, and then reconstructing them in forms suggestive of the original. In reverse archaeological order, I build works of “visual history” by creating multiple layers or generations of paint, found images and fabrics on the canvas.  B.A. History, University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude J.D. Harvard University School of Law  New Art Center, Newton, MA Painting, mixed media, encaustic Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA Printmaking Aparna Agrawal, Private Studio, Vernon Street Studios, Somerville, MA Painting, pastels, mixed media, encaustic  Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA  www.arsenalarts.org Brookline Artists Open Studios www.brooklineartists.com |
  is this enough? dimension: 30" x 30" acrylic on canvas |
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