What’s in a mark? The process of painting lends itself to placing a trace or mark on the canvas and then reacting to that. As a process, I begin with a structure. The structure is a gestural grid that continues to be layered. There are no direct representational images in mind when I begin a painting, just the experience of placing marks on a page. I see painting as mark making, where my drawings become meshed into paintings. No longer in my mind is there a separation between the two. I am simply leaving a mark on the canvas.
I am constantly thinking about how a trace is a mark left behind by something that has passed. Upon closer inspection, there is immediacy in my work as seen through rubbings, printing and using textural elements. I think of these marks as a memory of what was used in making the marks, but not literally having the mark-maker in the piece itself. However, string has become that mark-maker which is directly referred to on the canvas, or indirectly through the string’s own path. Instead of simply making the mark in my paintings through a gestural line, the string has become that lyrical line that I can physically move around and leave it’s trace imbedded in the surface forever.
Education
2004 Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA MFA, Painting
2000 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA BA, Studio Art, Summa Cum Laude, highest honors
2009 New Pathways to Teaching in NJ, New Jersey City University, Vineland, NJ Certificate of Eligibility
2003 Rome Graduate Seminar in Aesthetics and Cultural Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Certificate in Painting, Post-Baccalaureate Studio Art Program
1999 Summer Studies, Chautauqua School of Art Summer Program, Chautauqua, NY
Awards & Honors
2005 Juror’s Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center of the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Finalist for Purchase Award, Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2002 Temple University’s University Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Mortimer Hays/Brandeis Traveling Fellowship
2001 Festival of the Arts Recipient, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2000 Phi Beta Kappa, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Deborah Josepha Cohen Memorial Award in Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Louis P. Rabinovitz Art Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1999 REMIS Grant, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Undergraduate Research Program Grant Recipient, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
