From the Artist
I really began by learning to draw (self-taught) as a teenager. I learned to paint in my 20s with some classes at Northwestern University, while getting my degree in political science. Living in New York City in the mid-’80s introduced me to found objects discarded on the street, which became sculpture in my studio. After I received my MFA in sculpture from SUNY-Albany in 1988, I started drawing people and then painting landscapes. In both cases observation of the real world was my source: portraits and mountain landscapes from photos taken on climbs in the Colorado Rockies. When I returned to painting after graduate school, I began painting from memory: childhood memories of New Mexico. The landscapes became more abstract.
—Excerpted from https://www.vnews.com/Out-and-About-32490526:, accessed 6-18-2021
