THIS IS WHAT BEING A Brain Injured, 60 year old, woman artist looks like - INEXHAUSTIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVITY!
More and more words can escape me so when the thoughts come in verbal form inside my mind I know I have to stop and listen and write it down because it is important.
The reason why I say that more and more words have a tendency to escape me is because ever since my accident, on February 26th, 2004 words and me have grown apart, with less in common and the visual language has become my nearest and dearest friend that keeps me company, even in my darkest hours, which there have be many.
Through the hardships in my life, from the divorce, then later partner leaving the relationship, loosing the life I had before my accident, my day job that supported me and my work, the house, then apartment and most of my belongings, and even being homeless for a while, but despite all of this, my work is the one constant thing in my life, my creativity. It has been my friend, my companion even my lover at times and it is what drove me to become a better artist, a better person in which I constantly expand the ways and techniques in which I create, ALWAYS!
Because of it I have been able to further enhance the strength of my feminine side which has become even more complex than I ever could have imagined. By nature my curiosity is insatiable and my work can be very physical at times with it always evolving, intuitively. In a way having the Brain Injury and allowing certain aspects of my life to succumb to my limitations, I choose to embrace them and at times move side by side cohesively with the knowledge I gain from my experiences of being an artist/creative with The Invisible Disability.
So with that said here is my work, my story, in the language I know best!
Selected Exhibits:
2017 Jennifer Pepin Gallery, Holiday Show, Portland OR
2014 Jennifer Pepin Gallery, Group Show, Portland OR
2009 Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Equilibrium: The Human Mash Up, Portland, OR
2007 WSU Gallery, Minimalist Series - Vancouver, WA
2006 Gallery de Haas, “Into the Inbetween” - Portland, OR
2005 - 2008 Cinetopia Theaters, Selected Works - Vancouver, WA
2005 Vancouver Hilton, Selected Works - Vancouver, WA
2005 6th Street Gallery, “Into the Interior” - Vancouver, Wa
2005 6th Street gallery, “Portrait of a woman” Group Show -
Vancouver, WA
2004 North Bank Gallery, Selected Works - Vancouver, WA
2004 Haze Gallery, “21 years of Studio, friends of carton
service” Portland, OR
2003 Urban Wineworks, “iswhatiswhatis”, Selected works –
Portland, OR
2002 JKS Gallery, Selected Works – Portland, OR
2000 P.I.C.A. Selected Works, Group Show – Portland, OR
1998 Mark Wooley Gallery, “eye candy” Group Show –
Portland, OR
1997 International Color Pencil Society, Juried Show, Finalist,
Chicago Illinois
1994 International Color Pencil Society, Juried Show,
Portland, OR