Bio

In 1996 I signed up for a printmaking class at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. That was the first step towards what would eventually become a full-time career in the arts, following my first career in languages, linguistics, and language software development.

In 2005 I enrolled in the drawing program at Seattle's Gage Academy of Art. Gage Academy teaches classical methods and techniques, but its mission is broader: to help artists "meet the challenges of creating contemporary art with insight, skill and sound technique." Margaret Davidson, my primary drawing instructor at Gage, guided me through realism and then on to abstraction and conceptual art. I am the artist I am today because of her, and I was thrilled beyond words when she included two of my drawings in her book "Contemporary Drawing - Key Concepts and Techniques," published by Random House and which appeared in April 2011.

I have been influenced by the work of Agnes Martin, Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), Vija Celmins, and Eva Hesse, and I return to those sources as I explore the many pathways between beauty, thought, and art.

List of group and solo exhibitions