I am delighted to announce that I have been selected as a Massachusetts Cultural Council 2010 Artist Fellowship finalist in Painting!

In addition to the cash award, I and my work will be included in MCC publicity and shows, including one scheduled for July on Cape Cod Details to follow, closer to the date.

I'm quite honored and delighted by this award.

You can view an on-line gallery of all of thiss year's Fellows and Finalists at www.massculturalcouncil.org/gallery.asp

I feel as if I inhabit the world in the present, tangible space, and always at the same time am moving through related, but clearly different places. To me these real and phantom worlds overlay and overlap in dreams and memories. It's my belief, too, that many of us live this way, sometimes not even realizing how a conversation yesterday or an argument a year ago, is coloring today's sky. The facets and layers in my work stem from a desire to explore these liminal states out in the light.

Influenced by years of work in technical theater production, and before that a brief career in architecture, it is unsurprising that I find myself exploring the interplay of positive and negative spaces, solids and voids. I find pleasure in the quotidian and the sublime. I am in wonder at the incomprehensible vastness of the world.

When I work, I am equally engaged in the technical processes and the expressive options open to me By overlaying multiple images in the same space, or exploring the same image across multiple media, I begin to create a sense of how I occupy the world.

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I’m influenced by 18th century Japanese stencil work and printmaking, and by 19th century European iron-work. I’m inspired by 20th century surrealist painters, and by 21st century graffiti artists—the big names who have crossed over into the gallery world and the completely anonymous artists whose work I see daily. All of these sources and more conspire to inform my explorations into edge and shape and color, subject and mood.

I hope you will enjoy the works on these pages, and that maybe they will create for you, as they do for me, a space to enter and occupy, with your own dreams and explorations.