CHIMERA SERIES

This work muses on the complex relationship of humans to their environment, molecular organization, botany and the physics of space. The language of painting embodies this investigation of the morphology of organic form through process, materiality and its inherent collaboration with the structure of space.

As I investigate a fusion of the human body with the natural world, the unpredictability of form produces visually inventive collisions. Within this series there is an emphasis on the unfolding of a painted image and pictorial space where the underlying internal rationale changes and shifts before our eyes. Transforming itself, it is as though the form travels through a topologically stretched or folded space, differentiating its shape in accordance with changing unseen mathematical parameters. Hybrid images are created, acknowledging the present ethos of genetic and digital manipulation within our culture. Signaling changes in the way we think about pictorial space, this expanded permeability of form mirrors a current cultural perspective in which boundaries between organisms are increasingly blurred. Musing on the interdependence of human and botanical, organic and inorganic systems in a conflicted embrace, this series provokes thought about cultural attitudes and perceptions of our place within nature.

EDUCATION

1974 University of New Mexico, Master of Arts
1972 University of New Mexico, BFA, Cum Laude in Art
1971 Yale University Summer School of Music and Art

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1977-Present The University of Iowa, Professor of Painting and Drawing

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005 Northern Arizona University Museum of Art
2005 Bowling Green State University Museum (six artists)
2004 Art Saint Louis, Missouri, Juror Joann Rothfuss
2007,2003,1999,1994,1990 A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, (catalogue 1999) (one person)
2004-1989 Group Exhibitions, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
2003 Grinnell College Faulconer Art Gallery, Grinnell, Ia. (catalogue)
2002 University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio
2001 Galeria Article 26, Barcelona, Spain, Curator Katherine Slusher
1996, 1994, 1990 Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, Award 1996
1996 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Curator Susan Senseman
1995 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (one person)
1992 CSPS Alternative Space, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (one person)
1992 Kathryn Sermas Gallery, New York City
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Curator Lori Bartman.
1986 Evanston Art Center, Chicago
1984 Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago
1981 Frumkin and Struve Gallery, Chicago (one person)

SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS
2006, 2001-2000 Arts & Humanities Interdisciplinary Grant, U. of Ia.
1999-1997 Faculty Scholar Award, University of Iowa
1992 U Cross Foundation, Artist in Residence, Wyoming
1990, 1976 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Artist Residencies, New Mexico
1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1977 MacDowel Colony Fellowship and Residence, New Hampshire

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Des Moines Art Center San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
New American Paintings, Midwest, Open Studios Press, vol. 59, 2005, pp. 62-65.
Artist Directory, Iowa Arts Council, Des Moines, 1998 to present; www.iowaartscouncil.org
N.E.A. Fellowship Slide Archive, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, DC, 1997.