“TO TRAVEL IS TO LIVE.”
The quote says it all.
The inspiration behind my artwork comes from the places I’ve been, the things I’ve seen, and the cultures and people I’ve met along the way. I want to pay respect to how travel and exploration impacts lives. The images represented in my artwork portrays and reveals things that embody these destinations big and small, near and far. My artwork is not only for those who have been there, but also for those who are inspired by the subject matter. I want my artwork to draw you in, to force you to take a second look. Travel connects us all and by using geometrical shapes, patterns, and design, I'm able to recreate graphically how travel links us together.
I create modern fine art intaglio prints utilizing polymer etching plates, where imagery within geometric shapes are comprised of manipulated photography of patterns, designs and figures from around the world. Various colored inks are applied to the plates using a technique called à la poupée. In addition to the inked plates, hand-cut rice paper shapes are placed on the plates during the printing process in a printmaking process called chine collé. Other printmaking techniques used include screen printing and woodblock printing.
~ Quote by Hans Christian Anderson
Exhibits, Shows, Organizations & Methods
Art Exhibits
- Paper & Ink: Contemporary Printmaking
Student Art League of Denver - Aug 2019
- Best of the Art Students League Summer Art Market Exhibit
Curtis Center for the Arts - Nov 2018
- Off the Beaten Track
Artists on Santa Fe Gallery, Denver, CO - Mar 2018
- People, Places & Things - a printmaking show
Copper + Dash, Denver, CO - Mar 2018
- Open Press Printmakers "A Celebration"
Open Press, Denver, CO - Mar 2018
- TAG - A Printmaking Show
Tenn Street Coffee and Books, Denver, CO - Mar/Apr 2018
- Community Print Show
Edge Gallery, Lakewood, CO - Mar 2018
- Here, There, Everywhere
BREAK Create, Breckenridge, CO - Sept 2017
- 99 Pieces of Art
VSA Colorado | access Gallery/Studio, Denver, CO - Sept 2016, Sept 2017, Sept 2018, Oct 2019
- 528.0
Center for Visual Art | Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO (Jurors: Ashley Nason, Ron Pokrasso, Mark Ritchie) - Jul 2017
- Five Again
Tenn Street Gallery, Denver, CO - May 2017
- The Etching Show
Open Press Gallery, Denver, CO - Mar 2017
- Solarplate 2016
Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY (Juror: Dan Welden) - Oct 2016
- Holiday Show
Open Press Gallery, Denver, CO - Dec 2016, 2015
- Open at the Edge
Edge Gallery, Denver, CO - Sept 2016
- Party of Five
Tenn Street Gallery, Denver, CO - Mar 2016
- Mirror, Mirror
Valkarie Fine Art | Lakewood, CO - Mar 2016
- Pressing Matters
Invisible Museum, ASLD, Denver, CO (Juror: Bud Shark) - Mar 2016
- Community Print Show
Edge Gallery, Denver, CO - Mar 2016
- Planting the Seed: Pedagogy in Print
Lakewood Cultrual Center, Lakewood, CO - Mar 2016
- Small & Big
Art Student League of Denver, Denver, CO - Sept 2015
Art Fairs
- Open Portfolio / Print Exchange - Mo'Print
Redline, Denver, CO - 2018
- Summer Art Market
Art Student League of Denver, Denver, CO - 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
- Cheesman Park Art Fest
Dash events, Denver, CO - 2017, 2016
- Holiday Art Market
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO - Dec 2015
- Denver Arts Festival - Sloan's Lake
Colorado Events, Denver, CO - Aug 2015
Associations & Organizations
- Mo'Print Denver - committee member
- Art Student League of Denver - member and student
- LINK Artwork
Printmaking Methods
- Intaglio and Relief - Polymer and Zinc Etchings
- Screen Printing
- Monoprint/Monotype Printing
- Chine Colle
Studio
Studio 1/1 | Private Studio, Stapleton neighborhood, Denver, CO
