August 26 - September 14, 2022

Opening Reception: August 26, 5 - 7pm

Show closes: September 14, 3pm

Summary Artist Statement

It’s those images one obsesses about in the wee hours of the night. In the liminal time between sleep and wakefulness. For me, it’s bodies in motion. Expressive movement. Twirling swirling rising tumbling breathing sweating thrashing relaxing. The dance of life, captured in stillness.

I am a life-long student of figure drawing. While I may be known for my pen and ink Dancer Drawings, this is my first show of life-sized mixed-media work inspired by expressive dance movement.

The figures are rendered on Mylar, a translucent, durable surface. The artworks are suspended, unattached, over fabrics in a scroll-like fashion. This allows colour and light to show through the artwork, with interesting optical effects. The overall mood is dreamy, and changeable. The lengthy fabrics pool below the figures like bed linens on the floor on a hot summer night.

Working in a monumental size presents its own challenges, both technical (achieving a credible rendering) and physical (not falling off the ladder when stepping back to see what I’m doing). I get very close and physical when mark making, my hands and fingerprints all over the bodies I’m creating, exploring their expression, smoothing it across the Mylar, scratching it into the surface - trying to feel it - and melding it with my own expression. This dizzying dance of becoming plays mind games with me. I feel it.

I want the viewer to feel it, too.