CV/Bio
Education
Recent Art Students League of Denver
· Homare Ikeda, Contemporary Painting
· Jeff Wenzel, Karen Roehl, Jordan Wolfson, Joellyn Duesberry
1988 University of Colorado at Denver, Major in Fine Art, B.A.
Representation
EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
Spark Gallery, Supporting/Associate Member, Denver, CO
40 West Arts District, Lakewood, CO
Solo Shows
2019 "Things as They Are", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2018 "Here and Now", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2016 "No Solid Ground", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 "Connecting Dark & Light", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 "Unexpected Guest", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
Juried Shows
2018 "Inside Out: Art and Reflection", Athena Project, Lakewood,CO
2017 "Contemporary Abstraction", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
"Stepping Over the Sightline", Athena Project, Lakewood, CO
2016 "Attracted to Abstract", 40 West Arts District, Lakewood, CO
"Drip", 40 West Arts District, Lakewood, CO
2015 "Black & White", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
"Losing Love", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
2014 "Attracted to Abstract", 40 West Arts District, Lakewood, CO
"Own an Original", Littleton Fine Arts Board, Littleton, CO
2013 "Square", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
"Looking for the Light", Boulder Art Association, Boulder, CO
"Vivid Color", 40 West Arts District, Lakewood, CO
"On EDGE 2", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
Invitational Shows
2017 "Zip + 2 Show", Zip 37 Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 "Sync Squared", Sync Gallery, Denver, CO
Group Shows
2020 "Supporting Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"Over the EDGE", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2019 "Supporting Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"#I Saw It at EDGE", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2018 "EDGE Member Show", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
"Supporting Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 "Supporting Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"EDGE at Prism", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"EDGE on the Edge", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
"Pirate Open Show", Pirate Gallery, Lakewood, CO
"EDGE @ Colfax", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
"The New Underground", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"Small Wonders", EDGE Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2016 "EDGE Print Show", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"Supporting Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 "States of Transition", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"Midsummer Open Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"Lineage", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"Associate Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 "40 West Member Showcase", 40 West Gallery, Lakewood, CO
"Associate Members Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"EDGE Member Print Show", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"A Silver Lining", Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
"Wide Open Whatever", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
2013 "EDGE Open Show", EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO
"Spark Mark", Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
"Art & Soul of the League", Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
"Denver Turnverein Show", Denver, CO
"Wide Open Whatever", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
"Happy Accidents", Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
2012 "Wide Open Whatever", CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
2011 Jeff Wenzel Student Show, Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
Watercolors in Selected Juried Shows
“This Is Colorado”, Heritage Fine Arts Guild, Denver, CO, 2002, Watercolor 2nd Place Award
“Annual Exhibition of the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies”, Salt Lake City, UT, 2001
“Artists of Colorado”, Colorado Artists Guild, Denver, CO, 2000
“State Watermedia Exhibit”, Colorado Watercolor Society, Denver, CO, 2000
“State Watermedia Exhibit”, Colorado Watercolor Society, Denver, CO 1999
“This Is Colorado”, Heritage Fine Arts Guild, Denver, CO 1998, Merit Award
“Great Frame-Up & Depot Art Center Show”, Littleton, CO 1998, Juror’s Award
“15th All Colorado Art Show”, City of Greenwood Village, CO 1998
“Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 1997, Fritz & Virginia Weigand Award
“Great Frame-Up & Depot Art Center Show”, Littleton, CO, 1997, Juror’s Award
“Watermedia VIII”, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Colorado Springs, CO, 1997, CSAG Award
“Colorado Art Open Exhibition”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 1997
“Louisville Arts Festival Fine Arts Exhibition”, Louisville, CO, 1997, Best of Show
“6th National Art Exhibition”, Northern Colorado Artist Association, Fort Collins, CO, 1997
“National Exhibition of Transparent Watercolors”, Midwest Watercolor Society, Green Bay, WI, 1996
“Colorado Art Open Exhibition”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO, 1996
“Great Frame-Up & Depot Art Center Show”, Littleton, CO, 1995, Merit Award
“Artists of Colorado Exhibit”, Colorado Artists Association/Colorado Artists Guild, Denver, CO, 1995
“Greenwood Village Regional Art Show”, Greenwood Village, CO, 1987, Honorable Mention
Biography
Born in Akron, Ohio, as a child I moved around with my family to Michigan, Indiana and even a year in Germany when my father was in the army. After a year in VISTA on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, I'd developed an appreciation for the West and moved to Denver on my own and completed B.A.s in English and Art at the University of Colorado at Denver.
I'd begun painting at an early age, following my grandfather in watercolor and worked realistically through the early 2000s, exploring wet-in-wet techniques with transparent layering, strong contrast and intense color.
After a period of incubation involving many meditation retreats, I was ready for major change and began looking to intuition and spontaneity for inspiration through abstraction in acrylic. Acrylic offers some of the same qualities of transparency and liquidity that drew me to watercolor and also an exciting versatility, with variations in opacity and the possibility of more freedom in adding and subtracting.
At the Art Students League of Denver, I took classes and workshops from Jeff Wenzel, Karen Roehl, Jordan Wolfson and Joellyn Duesberry. For six years, my key teacher there was Homare Ikeda.
When not doing art, I enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains with my husband Dick.