• Calligraphic Enigma: Where Magic Lines Meet
  The Mill Gallery
  Guilford Handcraft Center
  July 1 - August 12, 2001
  
  
  
  
• Making Marks: The Meeting of Image and Text
  A three-person show with Laurie Doctor, Buff Elting, and Amy Clay
  Maclaren Markowitz Gallery
  Bouder, Colorado
  Opens March 9, 2001

  The making of marks is a universal human need. Painting and writing are twin creatures birthed by an ancient and ongoing longing to communicate, to name, to record visions, to provoke response. Written language exists through cultural agreements that certain marks have specific meanings. Yet the beauty of the written word as abstract form transcends intellectual comprehension. Image, form and color are universal. Weaving fragments of calligraphy (familiar, foreign, ancient, imaginary) into the fabric of visual imagery, these paintings explore timeless boundaries between the known and the invisible.

• And darkness was upon the face of the deep
  Singer Gallery
  Jewish Community Center, Denver
  Opens September 7, 2000

  Painting and writing belong to each other. The play between story and image can create powerful resonance. The best stories have been passed down through time, not because they reflect unchanging fact, but because of a deeper truth about the human condition. Remembering these stories gives societies context, dimension, vision. Stories contain warnings, predicaments and universal answers. They become an invisible architecture that holds us, creating cultural cohesion.

  Black and white often appear together in Bushman and Hottentot stories. An animal that is both black and white has magical significance. Black and white roans were the most revered of cattle. In the Genesis story I chose for this exhibit, Noah first sends out a raven to test the abatement of the waters.

  The white dove is remembered, but the raven has been forgotten. And yet, it constitutes a powerful image of contrast: of shadow, shape-shifting and magic. The Raven must precede the dove, as in the creation myths where light comes out of darkness and depends on darkness to manifest.

  "And darkness was upon the face of the deep." Genesis 1:2