27th Juried Western New York Regional Exhibition at Artists Group Gallery September 2018 Buffalo Niagara Art Association at Buffalo Artist Studios juried Exhibition, Fall 2018 Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters Show, Carnegie Art Center October 2018 Solo exhibit. (716) GAL-LERY at Hydraulic Hearth, Larkinville April-June 2019 Residency at Borgo Santo Pietro, Italy, Fall 2019 XXXI Trilogy at Art Dialogue Gallery, 3 person show of related paintings, July 2020
Artist Statement
People want more time in their day to get things done. If I had more hours in my day, I would just keep painting. Every painting is a self-portrait of how I see; a mirror of my observations. Painting real places & objects, I prefer to paint outdoors, observing and experiencing nature and recording things that attract me. Light, weather and time of day inspire my work & can change colors and appearances quickly. While I often paint familiar places, I see new opportunities and different sights every time I set up my easel and choose a subject for my canvases. When I return to a location each encounter becomes a record of a different day, a different point of interest. I use oil paint and pastels interchangeably and sometimes with each other.and do Urban Sketching with pen and ink. Luscious colors and contrasts are irresistible, various artistic elements & lines draw your eye through these paintings. If the images increase your appreciation of nature, or show you details that you would usually miss, then the pictures are successful. Of all the aspects involved in being an artist such as preparing canvases, ordering materials, framing, drawings and research, record keeping and shows, what I most like to do is start a new picture. Commissions & Requests Accepted
Public and Corporate Collections
Brooklyn Art Library Buffalo Olmsted Parks Office Castellani Art Museum, Family Justice Center Niagara University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Erie County Court System Gerald Mead Collection, Buffalo NY Ford Motor Company Lone Star State College, Houston, Texas Memorial Medical Center, Niagara Falls, NY New York State Parks at Niagara Falls Ohio State University Plein Air Magazine University of California at Berkeley University of Indiana, Indianapolis University of Russia, Moscow US Department of Justice, Maryland