A visitor to my studio:
“I look around at every painting of yours and don’t see a glimmer of hope.”

Ha-ha.

The joke is, I’m happy as a clam when I paint. The minute I enter my studio my spirits lift. Even in the face of a difficult painting, I’m ecstatic!

So what does an artist make of what people see in her paintings? Do people see what they want to see? Do they see what they don’t want to see?

Some of my favorite shows recently (and best of all, I was INVITED!):
Art & Words, Emerge Gallery — I wrote poems to my paintings and poets wrote poems to my paintings and then I did a painting inspired by a poet.

344 Second Street Troy — the curator and owner, Jean Tansey, herself a wonderful artist, selected a bunch of my paintings to exhibit, especially the larger ones, especially happy about that am I, since I’m painting really, really small lately. (I prefer to think I’m squeezing big ideas into small spaces.)

Albany Center — an email out of the blue invited me to exhibit in this beautiful space in the heart of downtown Albany surrounded by soaring brutalist architecture.
And… upcoming

The one and only Saugerties Open Studio Tour — visit me in my studio August 12 and13,
STUDIO #3 c’est moi ! Visit me, visit me. I love studio visits.