The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) supports Craft artists across the U.S. I am offering 3 works (with bids starting at $50) via RVA4CERF+'s exhibition and auction to benefit artists affected by Hurricane Helene.

The exhibition and auction both start at 10 AM, Tuesday January 21st, and run through Friday, January 24th.

Please check out the available work, and bid on art to help artists affected by Hurricane Helene.

I am pleased to have several of my Gardens included in UPPERCASE magazine's January/February/March 2025 issue #64, "Transform."

One of the magazine's articles covers time related to the creative process, and my work is coupled with a paragraph I wrote about the time it takes me to make my drawing intensive Garden collages (spoiler: I don't really keep track, but it is more than several hours per piece).

Thank you to editor, publisher, and designer Janine Vangool for including my work in UPPERCASE #64.

Opening November 7th, the Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial includes work from artists in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The exhibition includes work by 69 artists in the University of Mary Washington's Ridderhoff Martin and duPont Gallery spaces, and it will run through January 19th, 2025.

Thank you to juror Heather Hakimzadeh for including my work.

I am grateful to have been awarded an artist residency at VCCA this September.

My residency was supported by the Shirley Holden Helberg Grant for Mature Women provided by the National League of American Pen Women.

I am pleased to have a Sunset Garden included in Cut Paste Create: The Art of Collage at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. Thank you to jurors Rangsook Yoon of the Sarasota Art Museum and Kimberley Acebo Arteche of the Berkeley Art Center. The show is up from July 6th- September 15.

I am excited to be one of 13 featured artists in Second Street Gallery's exhibition "The Art of Collage," opening June 7th and running through July 19th. The show includes the work of 41 artists and showcases the variety of ways collage is part of contemporary art practice.

Work is available for purchase via SSG's online shop.

Thank you to Second Street's Director and Chief Curator Kristen Chiacchia for organizing the exhibition!

Thank you to the National League of American Pen Women for selecting me to receive a 2023 Shirley Holden Helberg Grant for Art. The grant is available to women over the age of 35 in the fields of Art, Letters, and Music, and is awarded biannually in odd years.

I have a series of small garden collages in Slow Ready, The Gallery's holiday Works on Paper show. The show opens December 15th, and will be up through February.

Slow Ready, The Gallery is located at 21233 North Bayside Road, Cheriton, Virginia.

ThinkSmall 12 opens with a ticketed Preview event on Thursday, November 2nd, and then the show opens free to the public on Friday, November 3rd. 

My work "Daffodils at Dusk (Memphis)" will be one of hundreds of 4" or smaller artworks on view and available for purchase through December 16th.

More information, including Preview ticket purchasing, is on Artspace's website.

You can also shop the exhibition online.

I am pleased to have work included in this year’s Art Night, hosted by Hickok Cole and benefitting the Washington Project for the Arts.

Thank you to Amanda Jiron-Murphy and Blair Murphy for curating the work in this year’s event!

“Night Garden #9 (Crimson Sky, Pink Bloom)” is part of the Environment at Risk exhibition, hosted by Appalachian Voices and opening Thursday, September 14th in the Gumenick Family Gallery of The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen. It will be on view through November 5th.

From the curatorial statement, the show is meant to use “visual language to communicate the various environmental harms and the impacts to Virginia's people and ecosystems."

I have 3 works in Teeny Tiny Trifecta 6 at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The show opens to the public on September 1st, but the gallery will hold an in-person VIP preview event on August 31st. You can also preview (and eventually purchase) the work in the show online. 

With over 160 artists each showing 3 works, this show will be an event not to be missed by art lovers. It will be on view through September 29th.

Thank you to curators Joshua Hollingsworth and Cara Ober for including my work in "Color Speaks" at the Delaware Contemporary. From the curators' statement: 

In Color Speaks, an exhibition featuring art works by Khamari Smith, Nikki Painter, Jenee Mateer, Irwin Freeman, Farida Hughes, and Chris Combs, we present a selection of stunning and delectable objects which hum, buzz and glow with chroma that tickles our retinas.

The show will be on view through August 27th in the Delaware Contemporary's Beckler Gallery.

I will have a drawing included in "The Barlow Gilotty Collection," opening February 4th at the American University Museum.

Thank you to Philip Barlow and Lisa Gilotty for collecting my work, and to Vivienne Lassman for curating my work in this exhibition.

"The Barlow Gilotty Collection" will be on view through May 21st. 

I am very pleased and grateful to be a 2022-2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship recipient for Works on Paper.

Thank you to the Commission for continuing this important work of supporting Virginia artists, and congratulations to the other 2022-2023 Fellows!

Shockoe Artspace is hosting their first ever benefit auction event, consisting of both silent and live auctions. Both auctions begin during the show's opening from 1-5 PM on Saturday, December 10th, with the live auction starting at 2:30. The silent auction/exhibition will continue through March. 

I am pleased to offer works in both the silent and live auctions. Live auction works' bidding prices start at $45. 

Check out this show and buy some art to support a vibrant part of Richmond's art community!

A big thank you to artist and juror John Hrehov for selecting "Large Night Garden" for inclusion in the group exhibition "Nocturne" at Artlink in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Running concurrently with his solo exhibition "In a Midnight World" also at Artlink, the shows will be up October 27th through November 20th.

You can read John Hrehov's lovely statement about the works he chose for "Nocturne" here.