The New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts was established in 1997 to support the mission of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and to bring recognition to the achievements of New Mexico women artists in the visual, digital, performance, and literary arts.
We engage NM women artists and allies with respect, inclusion, support, empowerment, and creativity.
We empower women artists of New Mexico by amplifying their voices, celebrating their achievements, and recognizing how they enrich our lives.
My work is experimental and intuitive and explores principles of design through formal and organic methods. This work also incorporates the subconscious, impulsive, and chaotic rhythms that spiral between academic thought and instinct. In this way, I rely on intuition, personal narrative, probability, and chance of enigmatic happenings to complete the paintings.
I am inspired by a multitude of subjects, nature, science, spirituality, and often a person, relationship, or experience. Art history influences range from the Colorfield, Gestural, and Abstract Expressionist painters, among others.
My physical process generally begins with a broad gesture using color on canvas, wood panels, or paper. From there, I explore the space physically, academically, and intuitively. As the layers build, the form becomes the intention of my thoughts. Sometimes there is an inspired narrative, other times the materials, specifically the color, initiates the drive for that portal I am searching to find. My paintings range in size from four inches to twelve feet, and employ a mix of acrylic, oil, water, and cold wax mediums.
For the last 20 years, I have been exploring abstraction through painting, abandoning objects, text, or geometric shapes that were present in my previous work. I use photography to capture realism, but with painting, I wanted something else. I explore the ephemeral realms, portals, and unseen spaces in my mind. I am creating a permanent and abstract memoir, intended to leave a lasting impression of this particular moment or divine experience.
In the early 90’s I received a BA in photography from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida and spent a summer in Paris, France in a photography program. From there I went to Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and earned two MFA’s, in photography and printmaking.
I currently live in Rio Rancho, NM, where I work in my private studio and live in a three generational family. I own Silver-Bar Studios, located in a historic building in Belen, NM, in the Historic Arts District on Becker Avenue, open by appointment only.