ARTIST STATEMENT
In 1963, after completing my degree in Art, I traveled to Italy for the first time and saw the Fra Angelico frescoes at San Marco Convent in Florence. A week later I happened into a retrospective exhibition of Giorgio Morandi. Those two artists influenced the trajectory of my work forever.
While my imagery has gone through a variety of landscape and still life inspired works, the
relationship of colors, shapes, light and texture, using Old Holland oil paint on linen, sealed with rabbit skin glue has been a lasting foundation. My recent exploration of color field painting, including graphing, has added a new excitement for me in the continual journey of reduction and simplification. The conversation between colors and sizes, as I arrange and re-arrange, while putting down layer upon layer of transparencies, creating diptychs, triptychs and multi-canvas series with unlimited possibilities.
My work has been described as meditative, serene, quiet. While that has never been my Objective, I live in the high desert, on a 3-mile dirt road, with almost no one in shouting distance. It is a dramatically harsh landscape which creates a tension between peaceful/and struggle for survival. Hopefully, its presence will be felt in the work as mystery and surprise.
EXHIBITIONS PARTIAL LIST
PUBLICATIONS
HDA Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA. Mil-Tree sponsors “The Art of War”. 2026
GOAT Gallery, Landers, CA. “Contemplate”-Two-Person Show, curated by Nicola Vruwink. 2025
New York Art Fair, New York City, NY “Otras Formas Gallery”, 2024
“Intersect Palm Springs”, Palm Springs Convention Center. Curated by Bernard Liebov of BOXO, Joshua Tree, CA.2024
Otras Formas Gallery, NYC, NY. “Spring Show”.2023
JJ Harrington Gallery, Cathedral City, CA. “Bluefield, Luckett, & Wold” 2021
Santa Monica Hanger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,” Mojave Made”, curated by Barbara Spiller and the Joshua Tree Art Gallery. 2019
JTAG (Joshua Tree Art Gallery), Joshua Tree, CA., “Three Sisters” exhibition, 2019
JTAG group Shows-2009-2019
Hwy 62 Art Tour 2011-2026
Joshua Tree National Park Annual Juried Exhibit – 29 Palms Art Gallery 2014
Art Detour; Hi Desert Highlights, 29 palms Art Gallery, 2014
29 Palms Inn Gallery, Two Person Show, 2014
High Desert Nature Museum, Art Tour Exhibition – Fall, 2011
Mendocino Art Center-Exhibition-- March 2007
L.A. Art Show—February 2007
Gallery 825-Annual Juried Exhibition – December 2006
Venice Art Walk- 2005 & 2006
Gallery 825--Annual Juried Exhibition – December 2004
Palm Springs Museum 35th Annual National Juried Exhibition – February 2004
West Valley Art Museum, Surprise Arizona – “Get Real” - April 2003
Patricia Correia Gallery, Annual Juried Exhibition - January 2002
Mt. St. Mary’s College, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Four-Person Show - September 2001
Palos Verdes Art Center, Beck strand Gallery, All Media Exhibition - June, 2000
Long Beach Arts, Southern California Regional Open - November 1999
LACMA Auction Exhibit – November 1998
LACMA Rental Gallery – September 1997
“Desert Dreams- Women of the Mojave”, 2026
” Mojave Made” Catalogue, 2019
“Morongo Basin Studio Tour” The Sun Runner -- November 2006