Currently working on surface and digital textile design, wearable art, and acrylic painting.
Artist Statement
Narratives and world building: bringing them into an elegant theater of subject matter stretching them beyond original form and providing new contexts. Substrates for reoccurring signifiers: coats, capes, masks, hats, shoes, floral, water, landscapes and other pollinator imagery.
Craftology
Deconstruct/ reconstruct materials in innovative and unexpected ways. Invention/reinvent, detailed/abstract - patterns, motifs, colors.
Digital Photography
iOS iPhone XR Digital Photography: Responses to natural and artificial lighting in architectural and other structures.
Narratives and world building: bringing them into an elegant theater of subject matter stretching them beyond original form and providing new contexts. Substrates for reoccurring signifiers: coats, capes, masks, hats, shoes, floral, water, landscapes and other pollinator imagery.
Craftology
Deconstruct/ reconstruct materials in innovative and unexpected ways. Invention/reinvent, detailed/abstract - patterns, motifs, colors.
Digital Photography
iOS iPhone XR Digital Photography: Responses to natural and artificial lighting in architectural and other structures.
Professional
EDUCATION
MFA - Sculpture, Miami International University of Art & Design
MA - Library & Information Science, ALA, University of South Florida
BFA - Photography, University of North Texas
57 hrs. Associate of Fashion Design, Art Institutes
27 hrs. Graduate Level, Dept. of Education-Texas Teacher Certified-Secondary Art, Texas Christian University
PUBLICATIONS
MFA - Sculpture, Miami International University of Art & Design
MA - Library & Information Science, ALA, University of South Florida
BFA - Photography, University of North Texas
57 hrs. Associate of Fashion Design, Art Institutes
27 hrs. Graduate Level, Dept. of Education-Texas Teacher Certified-Secondary Art, Texas Christian University
PUBLICATIONS
- The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library
- Published photography, Fancy Publications
- Published photography, University of North Texas Brochure
- Awarded A.R.F. Grant: Artist Resource Fund
- Gouache painting, Halloween Gala Auction 2023, The Women’s Center, Texas
- Blue pollinators, 2023, acrylic on canvas, The Women’s Center, Texas
- Fort Worth Before Sunrise, 2023. (2022 - 10 digital photographic prints, framed). Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospitals, Texas
- Bees#2, 2021, acrylic on canvas, The Women’s Center, Texas
- Chemo beanies, Cancer & Blood Center, Texas
- Wearable mask, Utah Arts Festival Gala, Utah
- Wearable art, Utah Arts Alliance, Utah
- Sculpture, Vargas Gallery, Florida
- Sculptures, Hangmen's House of Horror, Texas
- Volunteer dresser, Miami Beach Mercedes Benz Fashion Show, Florida
- Fashion costume illustration designs - Cirque du Soleil Varekai Costume Illustration Competition: semifinalist winner
- Savannah College of Art & Design Classes: Clay/Sculpture and Pop-up Graphics
- Creativity Without Limits Workshop and Point Zero Painting Workshop: by Author/Artist, Michelle Cassou, Taos, NM
- Process Painting Workshop Instructor: Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
- Facilitate retreat art workshops: El Tesoro, Granbury, TX
- Secondary Art Educator: Joshua High School, Joshua, TX
Selected Exhibitions, Commissions
2017 FA/WI 2017 Streetwear Collection, UrbanEmo
2017 Utah Arts Festival Masquerade
2015 Comic Con Fashion Show
2015 Splatter of Elegance, Fashion Show
2015 Cirque du Soleil Varekai, Costume Illustration Competition Exhibit
2015 Tre-Art-Sures, Vargas University
2015 Cinco de Mayo Fashion Show
2014 Beautifully Dark: A Requiem, Vargas Gallery
2014 Beautifully Dark: A Requiem, O’Cinema
2013 Not Like Before
2013 Vargas Gallery
2013 Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Art District
2013 Process, Student Exhibition
2012 Conglomerate
2011 Art Over the Bridge
2010-2015, Art Institutes Faculty Exhibit
2008 Square One Virgin 2.0, The Ritz
2006 Gala Corina
2006 Summertime Fun, Mirta's Gallery
2006 Brighthouse Show
2005 Concorso Rapido
2004 Dunedin Fine Art Center
1996 Page Gallery
1995, 1997, 2001, 2002 Gallery Night
2017 Utah Arts Festival Masquerade
2015 Comic Con Fashion Show
2015 Splatter of Elegance, Fashion Show
2015 Cirque du Soleil Varekai, Costume Illustration Competition Exhibit
2015 Tre-Art-Sures, Vargas University
2015 Cinco de Mayo Fashion Show
2014 Beautifully Dark: A Requiem, Vargas Gallery
2014 Beautifully Dark: A Requiem, O’Cinema
2013 Not Like Before
2013 Vargas Gallery
2013 Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Art District
2013 Process, Student Exhibition
2012 Conglomerate
2011 Art Over the Bridge
2010-2015, Art Institutes Faculty Exhibit
2008 Square One Virgin 2.0, The Ritz
2006 Gala Corina
2006 Summertime Fun, Mirta's Gallery
2006 Brighthouse Show
2005 Concorso Rapido
2004 Dunedin Fine Art Center
1996 Page Gallery
1995, 1997, 2001, 2002 Gallery Night
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