Our relationships are complex. What we project to the outside world may not be the reality of our inside world. But each of us exposes clues about our life and our relationships with the look of an eye, the expression of our mouth, our body language. We each expose ourselves in ways we may not have realized. And simultaneously, we clothe ourselves in deceptive guises as means of protection. Portraiture opens the door to the sitter's personal space. It provides insight to the subjects' character, their identity.

Much of the work in my portfolio focuses on my (subjective) reactions to individuals, often family and close friends. Portraiture allows me to investigate both the physical and psychological attributes of these people and myself. I play with representation and narrative in attempt to create an image that is ambiguous in read; whose distance from reality, or fantasy, is indiscernible. And while my work is derived from personal experiences, I hope that it carries with it universal associations.

LFC800@aol.com

EDUCATION

2003 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking, Honors
2001 Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Ithaca, New York, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, Dean's List

SOLO EXHIBITION

2007 Earthly Delights
Andreson Gallery, Bridgewwater State College, Bridgewater Massachusetts
2005 Solo Exhibition
Nightengale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Granda, Oregon

TWO PERSON EXHIBTION

2004 Illusive Narration
Tjaden Galley, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 International Artists Residency Exhibition
Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Central New York Book Arts, juried by Peter Verheyen
Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York
2007 38th Annual National Exhibition, juried by Jan Ernst Adlmann, museum director/curator
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
2006 International Artists Residency Exhibition, Mark Tauber, Cultural Attache of the US, Hungary
The Congress Center, Balatonfured, Hungary
2006 Group Exhibtion
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
2006 Dimension 2006, juried by Brooke Anderson, director & curator, The Contemporary Center of the American Folk Art Museum
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2006 International Juried Print Exhibition, juried by Samantha Rippner, Curator, Metropoitian Museum of Art, Department of Drawings & Prints
Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey
2006 19th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, juried by Rudy Pozzatti; Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Louisiana
2005 Face Value, juried by Marc Pachter, Director, National Portrait Gallery
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2005 14th Annual National Juried Exhibition, juried by Stephen Haller, Stephen Haller Gallery; Art Institute & Gallery, Inc., Salisbury, Maryland
2005 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art; Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art Inc., New York,
2005 Art on Paper Exhibition, juried by Pamela Wilson, Executive Director, Maryland Federation of Art
Gallery International, Baltimore, Maryland
2005 Book Arts Biennial Exhibition, juried by Peter Verheyen
Bird Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
2005 36th Annual National Exhibition, juried by Susan Ehrlich, West Coast Regional Collector for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
2005 7th Annual All-Media Exhibition, juried by Britta Konau, Associate curator of Modern and Contemporary
Art at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 2004 International Figure Show
Red Dot Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 New Directions '04, juried by Tina Kukielski, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
2004 29th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, juried by Donald Kuspit, contributing editor, Artforum and
Sculpture magazines
Smithtown Township Arts Council Gallery, St. James, New York
2004 Biennial 2004, juried by Carrie Przybilla, curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia
2004 Alcyone, juried by Tracey Bashkoff, associate curator, Collections & Exhibitions, Guggenheim Museum
Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art Inc., New York, New Yew York
2004 Transitional Residency
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska
2003 Drawing Cross Media: Pen, Pencil & Ink, juried by Sara Agniel, William Allen, David Macaulay; Providence Art Club, Providence, Rhode Island
2003 Women in Charge, American Association of University Women, juried by Deborah Bricker Balken; Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2006 Residency
International Residencies Program, Csopak, Hungary
2004 Residency
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
2004 Residency
Centrum for the Arts, Port Townsend, Washington
2003 Residency - Transitional Residency
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska
1998 David R. Bean Travel Fellowship, Rome, Italy
Cornell University

COLLECTIONS

Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts
Hungarian Multicultural Center of Art
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design Library; Artists' Book Collection
The Art Gallery of New South Wales