ABQ Museum’s exhibition Abstracting Nature has been in the works for a couple of years now, with Josie Lopez curating. The included artists are myself, Agnes Martin, Karen Yank, Judy Tuwalestiwa, Yoshiko Shimano, Joan Weissman, Joanna Keane Lopez, Emmi Whitehorse & Lydia Madrid.
Abstracting Nature foregrounds the works of ten local artists, past and contemporary, whose individual bodies of work share a kindred and enduring relationship with the New Mexico landscape. Each of these artists has nurtured a unique and long-standing relationship with a specific material, and has deeply explored how that material informs their interactions with the natural world.
My included works are a representative exploration of a myriad of landscapes both physical and internal through reductive abstraction and elemental meditation. My blue Breathless paintings and Air photographs on metal panels (above) present water and air as mediums of calm. The Vacuities prints and Infernos sculptures (below) inspired by my time in Iceland, utilize stark contrast, deep blacks and primordial forms to present time as a landscape in itself. 
On Saturday September 27th I will be part of the ABQ Museum’s public panel talk as a bookend for the exhibition. The closing conversation, moderated by Asst. Curator William T. Gassaway, will include artists Emmi Whitehorse, Yoshiko Shimano and myself. We will discuss how our art uses abstraction to share deep stories and personal connections with the environment. Please join us. Details below:
Abstracting Nature
ABQ Museum 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM
Closing Panel: Saturday. Sept 27, 2 pm: A conversation with Emmi Whitehorse, Yoshiko Shimano , and Marietta Leis, moderated by William T. Gassaway, Asst. Curator of Art
I’m also thrilled to share that my gallery representation in California: SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects + Exhibitions, will be opening an exhibition of my work, WATER + LIGHT. The solo show will highlight a diverse group of my works that explore how reflection, shadow flow, and form have inspired and shaped my practice. Some of my earlier included works like Crosscurrents (woodblock prints, above) and Fluidic Focus (watercolors, below) present my time making work at the water’s edge from Greece and the Azores.
Many of my more recent works like Striving 2, a sculptural painting of polished graphite on folded Tyvek, (below), and my Eclipse series of paintings utilizing black Flashe and copper leaf (below) are mixed media experiments in light, shadow and reflectivity.
My studio assistant Stefan Jennings Batista and SCAPE director Jeannie Denholm have curated the exhibition which opens Saturday September 20th at SCAPE in the Corona Del Mar area of Newport Beach CA.
