ARTMAKING
Making art is what started all of this. Long before the consulting work and the writing, there was the question of how things are made, why they matter, and what it means to put something into the world.
My studio practice spans three distinct modes of working, each coming from a different impulse and serving a different purpose. Together they reflect what making art actually means to me.
Public Art Thinking Made Visible
Some work starts as a way of understanding something I'm already working on professionally. A watercolor draft of the artist selection process as seen by a community. A visual map of the public art triad. These pieces begin as thinking tools and become something else — images that have found their way into published work and articles. There are only a handful of pieces so far, but this is the work I'm most curious about where it's going.
My first study visualizing how communities view the public art selection process.
Final diagram of how communities view the public art process to be published in an upcoming Routledge volume for a chapter “Transparency Is Not Participation: What Public Art Teaches Us About Local Democracy.”
Visualization of the Public Art Triad I discuss in the Public Art Curious article “Permission to Say No.”
Nature, Craft, and Attention
Nature in the form of landscapes, tree studies, and animals made with watercolor, colored pencil, and studies in pen, ink, and graphite. I've been creating this kind of work my whole life. It's about slowing down and looking carefully — spending time with the natural world for no reason other than the satisfaction of trying to see something clearly. No concept, no agenda. Just the discipline of attention.
Collage and Processing the Personal
My collage work is the most personal and the hardest to talk about. It's a way of processing my thoughts, my ideas, my dreams - the things that don't have words yet. The images come from some place not yet explored and I end up with something unexpected. This is what making art looks like when it's purely for myself.
Exhibitions
2025 - “Night Comes In” Group Exhibition, Outlander Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2025
2025 - “Expressive Imprint: The Sticker Design Competition, Art that Explores the Boundaries of Creativity” Group Exhibition, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York
2024 - “Magic Mural Art Wall” Public Art Projection Group Exhibition, RiseUP for Arts, Hartford, Connecticut
2024 - “From Peaks to River: Hudson Valley Landscape Art” Group Exhibition, Olive Free Library, West Shokan, New York
2024 - “Branches and Roots: Tree Studies” Group Virtual Exhibition, People and Paintings Gallery, Online
2024 - “Artists Respond to Poetry” Group Exhibition, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York
2022 – “I No Longer Fear Death, I Fear Not Living” Group Virtual Gallery, Hearts Need Arts, San Antonio, Texas
2022 – “Create an Art Series” Group Virtual Gallery, Arts Mid-Hudson, Kingston, New York
2021 – “Create an Art Series” Group Virtual Gallery, Arts Mid-Hudson, Kingston, New York
2021 – “Spirit of the Season” Group Exhibition, WomensWork.Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York