PATTERNS AND TONES

    Over the past several months, I've been thinking about the wood reliefs I've created over the past year and how I would like to present them in an exhibition space. With their titles cut to a minimalist description and number, I thought perhaps I would put them in the order created. It wasn't until I had placed a framed print from my Paper Ballet series up on my studio wall next to the wood reliefs did I realize what an interesting dialogue it was having with the sculptures. In the back of my mind, these two bodies of work started to coalesce into one cohesive piece but I had yet to verbalize it in writing or discuss it in earnest. "Fleeting Perspectives: A Paper Ballet"   When I attended an artist developement program several weeks ago, that idea started to expand. Nestled in the rolling hills of central California on a lovely ranch called Willow Pond , I attend  Kipaipai  for the first time. Spearheaded by Andi Campognone , this weekend workshop was a plac...

Postcard Test No. 1   My lifelong facination with New England, and specifically Massachusetts, has lead me to my next art adventure. I  applied for and was granted an artist's resendency this July at the Nantucket Island School of Design and The Arts . I'm hoping the residency will help me explore my family history and to bring alive the many stories I've heard about summers on Nantucket.  As opposed to Ellis Island, my family came through Boston. They came from Morsasco , a small hillside town in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian Region of Piedmont, and settled in Cape Cod in 1914.   With such a short week long residency, I dedided to sketch landscapes and boats on postcard paper and send them to friends and family. The goal upon my return is to use these postcard sketches as a jumping point for making a series of 17 x 22"" gouache and graphite paintings. Here is a sample of a postcard sketch I made, inspired by Charles Green Shaw 's "Fi...