artist statement
My paintings are a pictorial conversation in real time. In genuine dialogue one has to be open to the presence of otherness, be it another person, tradition, history, or a work of art.
I approach the canvas in an improvisational dialogue I want to explore but don’t know its end point. I see the physical space of the canvas as containing the conversation as it is played out through marks, gestures, intention, accident, space, and materials. This process of discovery is alive with energy, sometimes frustration, and animated by both formal concerns and a psychological awareness of the facts of embodiment and embeddedness in a web of relationships—person, woman, mother, wife, sister, daughter.
I am painting my side of the conversation as well as the other voice, and being open to this other voice is what animates my work and allows it to unfold on the canvas. Kinetic energy is generated by a dialogue of complementary opposites: abstract/figurative, hard edge abstraction and more gestural painting, control and accident, order and chaos, humor and pathos.
CURRENT SHOWS
Aura, Cambridge Art Association, October 30th -January 17th, (Juror: Tessa Bachi Haas, Asst. Curator ICA), Kathryn Schultz and University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MACambridge, Ma Member's Open: Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Nov. 22-Jan 12, Provincetown, Ma RECENT SHOWS Small, But not Too Small, Juried Holiday Show, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Dec. 4-22, Reception 12/6 6-8 pm SMFA ART SALE, Dec. 6-8, 2024, School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts, Boston, Ma Salon/Salon!, AMZehnder Gallery, Dec. 6-20, Wellfleet, Ma --joint holiday show with FARM gallery artists AMZEHNDER GALLERY, 25 Bank St, Wellfleet Ma (508) 560-8249 |
PRESS
2022
Surface Play at AMZehnder Gallery, July 6, 2022, Provincetown Independent provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2022/07/06/arts-briefs-43/ 2021 AMZehnder Gallery's Holiday Show, Art's Briefs, Provincetown Independent, provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2021/11/17/arts-briefs-10/ 2020 Newton Artist Solo Exhibit at Piano Craft Gallery, NewtonTAB newton.wickedlocal.com/news/20191227/newton-artist-solo-exhibit-at-piano-craft-gallery-of-boston-runs-jan-3-26 2017 Gallery 1832 at LabCentral's Grand Opening, Artscope, artscopemagazine.com/2017/10/gallery-1832-at-labcentrals-grand-opening/ Gallery 1832 to Host Artist's Debut, Cambridge Chroniclecambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20171103/gallery-1832-to-host-artist-debut 2016: Building on Life Lessons: Thompson and Scheibler in Newton, Artscope, artscopemagazine.com/2016/08/building-on-life-lessons/ 2016: Ingrid Scheibler and Irwin Thompson, 'Pathways to Abstraction", Holzwasser Gallery, New Art Center, Newton, Sept-Oct. (Click to see my paintings which are the larger ones.) |
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