Artist Statement
Photography has been a passion of mine since I was nine years old when I received my first camera. I studied photography in university along with art education aiming to continue my photographic art and teach what I know and love. My Master of Arts in Art Education thesis centered on research in photography history to find examples of prominent women photographers and their value and presence in the medium.
My personal work emphasizes location, environmental portraiture and landscape photography. My recent travels have taken me to Indo China, South East Asia and Australia. My next trip will be to Nepal and Tibet in spring 2010. My favorite thing about traveling is that I get to take photos! It is on these adventures that I get to experience other cultures and look for the extraordinary in their everyday lives. A common theme is my fascination and capture of religion, places of worship and religious iconography. A parallel theme is how nature is juxtaposed and often integrated with faiths in our world.
Through my travels and photos I express the presence of faith found and celebrated in powerful landscapes.
Art Exhibitions
Art Institute of California–San Diego, Crossing Palettes Exhibition, Spring 2008
Art Institute of California–San Diego, en Route Exhibition, Sept. 15 – October 31, 2007
Willam D. Cannon Art Gallery, San Diego. January 6 – March 4, 2007
Art Institute of California–San Diego, December 2005–January, 2006
Get-M Gallery, 3060 University Ave. San Diego. Exhibition of Juried Photo-Based Show on
The Environment, August 14 – October 11 2004.
Art Institute of California–San Diego, Including Photography Students. July 16–August 16, 2004.
Art Institute of California–San Diego, Spring 2004.
The Athenaeum School of the Arts. La Jolla, CA; Recent Photographs. May 2001.
Anna Leonowens Gallery; Nova Scotia, Canada; Recent Drawings. May 2000.
Anna Leonowens Gallery; Solo Exhibition.
Photographs and Archived Photographs to support thesis. November 1995.
Anna Leonowens Gallery; Solo Exhibition. Photographs and Sculptures. May 1993.
Visual Arts Gallery, Concordia University; Montreal Quebec; Sculptures. April 1991.
Complex de Canal, Montreal, Canada; Juried Exhibition. Sculptures. June 1990.
Visual Arts Gallery, Concordia University; Juried Exhibition. May 1990.
Visual Arts Gallery, Concordia University; Juried Exhibition. Sculptures. August 1989.
