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.
In September my solo exhibition, Internal Reflections opened at the beautiful Michael Warren Contemporary art gallery in Denver: 
Unfurling 
This latest collection of poems is the result of my time as a 2022 writer in residence at the Fairhope Center for Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama. During my month long tenure on the Alabama Gulf coast, I was able to distill down from numerous poems and writings, with the help of the quiet and the water.
But as my recent newsletter can attest the move, though slowing me down a bit and requiring time, has not diverted my art endeavors. I enjoyed participating in the Portugal group exhibition “earth@Faro” curated by Paulo Duarte Filipe. We spent part of a morning ‘messaging’ one another to get my “Boundless” pieces hung. My regret was not going to Faro as seeing pictures of some of the artists frolicking on the beach made me very envious. It’s always an adventure and a pleasure to exhibit internationally. And there will be more exhibits in Portugal to report.
After so many restrictions and fears of Covid-19 something switched for me in these 2021 ink and gesso paintings. I threw off the chains of confinement and struck back. The transition was not planned–my mind did not control the hand. My heart knew I had to beat my fears into submission by letting the ink express the chaos and heaviness I felt. It was then that I started to settle and began to feel a new grounded-ness.These paintings reflect the internal landscape of the pandemic eon and also the ‘other side of numbness’.
is extended time of chaos and pandemic I hope that you are okay. Like many of you I am entering my seventh month of staying-at-home that sometimes glides by with ease and sometimes seems interminable. For me this is a supreme exercise/lesson in yielding—to overlook that the to-do list that doesn’t get completed and to not judge myself or others for how they are coping. This is hard times and I need to remind myself that we need to be gentle with ourselves and others.
I am also adding some photos of the exhibits that went ‘live’ in July and December in South Korea and Istanbul so you can appreciate the global community keeping art alive! 
