Artist
Statement:
Night seeps
into day,
Childhood into adulthood,
Birth into death,
What is known into that which I imagine...
My mind travels over the fragments of our memory,
Visions reflected in light and shadow.
Where do
we come from? Where are we going to? What is life about? These questions
have contributed to much of what I photograph.
Making photographic
images is an attempt to understand the ineffable mysteries of life. I
am drawn to people and places that explore the non-material world and
the universality of the human condition. Universal struggles of love,
relationship, suffering and loss are what interest me most.
SELECTED
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Midwest Photographers Project Centro
Fotografico Alvarez Bravo; Oaxaca, Mexico
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; University of Texas at Austin
Center for Photography at Woodstock ; Woodstock, New York Wilmette Public
Library; Wilmette, Illinois
Dancing Bear / W.M. Hunt; New York , New York
Rick and Deann Bayless; Chicago, Illinois
University of Illinois, Comer Archive of “Chicago in the Year 2000,”
Yale University, Palmquist Archive in the Beinecke Library
PUBLICATIONS
Przekroj, Poland; 49/2004
Profifoto; Germany, July/August, 2004
Book Cover Photograph for Tequilla! A Natural and Cultural History by
Valenzuela-Zapata and Nabhan,University of Arizona Press, 2004
North Shore Magazine; April 2004
The Photo Review, Photo Review National Competition Issue; 2003
Fotopozytyw; Lodz, Poland, 2003
La Fotografia Actual, Barcelona, Spain; December 2002
Black & White Magazine, Vol.20, July/August 2002
The Photo Review, Photo Review National Competition Issue; 2002
Shots 77, The 2002 Portfolio Issue, September 2002; pgs.10-15
Chicago Reader “1000 Words,” Vol.32, Nos.5-9, October-November
2002,
“Taking Care of Joe,” July 26, 2002, Vol.32, pg.14
Photo District News; May 2000
Manhattan Arts International; “Herstory,” International Art
Competition,
March/April 2000 Issue, New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 “Reflections in Light and Shadow; Lodz, Poland
1997-Present “Images of Mexico,” Frontera Grill/Topolobampo;
Chicago, Illinois
1999 “Southern Exposures,” Wilmette Public Library, Illinois
1998 “Before The Butterflies,” Artemisia Gallery; Chicago,
Illinois
GROUP EXHIBITIONs * Denotes Juried Exhibit
2005 VI Women's
International Conference, Graz, Austria*
Texas Photographic Society's 20th Annual Members Only Show*
Chicago Area Artist Alliance*
2004
“Sacred Art”, First United Methodist Church, Evanston, Illinois*
“War and Peace”, Gallery 415, Chicago, Illinois*
“On Our Way”; Siegen, Germany*
“Windows”, Stolen Buick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, Juried Show,
San Marcos, Texas*
“Garden In Focus”, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Winner in Landscape
Category
Photo Midwest, A Seven State Juried Exhibition; University of Wisconsin*
Watermark Gallery; Madison, Wisconsin
Photo LA, Women in Photography International, California
“Best of Show,” Urban Studio on Webster; Chicago, Illinois*
Gillock Gallery; Evanston, Illinois
“Labyrinths,”Gallery Mornea; Evanston, Illinois
2003
“Chicago,” La Galeria Samuel Menache, Mexico City, Mexico*
Fotowerk 2003, Flatfile Photography Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
The “Mythical and the Mundane,”Orleans Street Gallery; St
Charles, Ill
Galeria De Arte Fotographico; San Miguel De Allende, Mexico*
2002
Photo LA, Women in Photography International Booth, California
Photo Impact Santa Monica; Santa Monica, California
2001
“Images of Women,”Women In Photography International 20th
Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Second Place Winner;
California, traveling exhibit*
Urban Studio Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
“Seven Midwest Photographers,” Chicago Athenaeum,Schaumburg,Illinois*
2000
“Chicago In The Year 2000,” - Water Tower Gallery, James Hunt
Gallery, Three Arts Club, Chicago Cultural Arts Center; Chicago, Illinois*
Tatar/Alexander Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
Evanston + Vicinity 15th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston, Illinois*
“Midwest Winter,” Center for Visual Arts; Wausau, Wisconsin*
“Captured Time,” Time Life Corporate Headquarters, Chicago,
Illinois*
1999
Mayfair 1999 National Juried Photography Exhibition; Allentown, Pennsylvania;
Honorable Mention*
Gecko Galeria; Oaxaca, Mexico
Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibition; New Hope, Pennsylvania*
“Openings,” The Three Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois*
The Art Of The Therapist; Zion, Illinois
1998
Evanston + Vicinity 14th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston, Illinois*
No BIAS Gallery National Juried Competition; North Bennington, Vermont*
“LaPetite VI,” Adler Gallery; Eugene, Oregon*
22nd Annual Alice and Arthur Competition and Exhibition,
Beverly Art Center; Chicago, Illinois*
Chicago ART Open; Chicago, Illinois
Wilmette Public Library Juried Art Shows; Wilmette,Illinois;
Awarded solo show*
Women’s Works, Eleventh Annual Exhibit of Fine Art by Women,
Northwest Area Arts Council; Woodstock, Illinois; Purchase Award*
St. John’s University National Art Exhibition; Jamaica, New York*
1996
“Viewpoints”, Truman College; Chicago, Illinois
1995
“Exploring the Fine Arts-Photography 1995”, North Suburban
Fine Arts Center; Highland Park, Illinois; Honorable Mention
Affiliations
Visiting
Committe of the Department of Photography Art Institute of Chicago
Women In Photography International
Texas Photographic Society
Huston Center for Photography
Center for Photography at Madison
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