2024
“Wasp Nest Reimagined” 20’x 20 “ . “Fresh Perspectives” exhibit at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod. January 2025.
“Natural Wonders” Juried exhibition at The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI, 4/26/25-5/23/25,
“Flames of Resilience” 36” x 40” framed, $800 handpainted silk, commercial fabric on canvas, free motion stitching and graffiti quilting.
“Pain Points” , Juried Online exhibition sponsored by National Women’s Caucus for Art, 4/14/25-6/15/25.
Juror's Statement:
What emerged was not a scream but a frequency.
When we issued the open call for Pain Points, we anticipated an emotional wave. What we received was a controlled burn - deliberate, dimensional, and resonant.
These responses organized themselves, almost organically, into constellations. Some works pressed into the politicized body: anatomy, autonomy, grief, and resistance. Others mapped landscapes scarred by extraction, loss, or quiet reverence. Still others turned inward, offering reflections on disability, identity, and survival. What bound them was not the subject alone but the insistence to bear witness, not in fear but in firm presence.
The submissions revealed a chorus of urgent interiority, each one a node in the collective nervous system of our time. The artists did not scatter into abstraction or recoil in fear. They rooted themselves. Not chaos but clarity, grounded responses to grief, fracture, and longing emerged. Their works held the weight of personal testimony while echoing wider ruptures, inequity, erosion, and survival, tethering the intimate to the political without losing either.
We are living through a moment of dislocation, a hinge in time. There is a collective unease, less apocalypse than entropy, a sense that we are standing at the end of one order and the uncertain beginning of another. There is casual talk of Rome, declining empires, and strongmen and salutes resembling old terrors. What rises in the vacuum is something newer and colder: techno-feudalism, in which power is networked, opaque, and indifferent. It is in this air that artists are speaking.
Audre Lorde reminds us: “Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” The works in Pain Points trace every contour of that cycle. They neither romanticize pain nor neutralize it. They allow it to speak, to clarify, to mark what matters.
María Lugones's theory of the coloniality of gender reminds us that systems of oppression are never siloed but braided. Likewise, Sara Ahmed’s work on the cultural politics of emotion tells us that pain is not simply personal. It circulates, attaches, moves, and sticks. The art in this exhibition enacts both of these truths: pain as structure and pain as motion.
What we witnessed in this collection of work was not fear but the metabolization of crisis, not a collapse but a recalibration. The artist’s role, still and always, is to transmute what feels impossible to carry. And they did.
These are our pain points. And also our coordinates forward.
“Floral Reverie”, acrylics, monoprinting, commercial fabric, thread and free motion stitching on canvas, 28 x 28 framed.$600 SOLD
“Under the Umbrella” 24 x 24” framed, commercial fabric, hand painted linen, free motion stitching, beads and handcrafted polymer clay button, NFS . Donated to Edgartown Library Auction Fall 2024
“Meet Me Under the Umbrella” 21” x 21” x 1 “ framed. handpainted silk, commercial fabric, beads, handrafted polymer button, free motion stitching. “Call Me When You Get Over the Bridge” exhibibion, June 5-August 31, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Guyer Barn HyArts Annex, Hyannis, MA. $350 SOLD
“Physics Unwound” 14 x 14 “ framed+_ String Theory Exhibition at Cultural Center of Cape Cod. 2/6/24-3/3/24 _14” x 14 “ framed, $100 SOLD
“A(n) Eye on You”_ 18 x 18 “ framed, on exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, “Autonomous” Exhibition. April 2024. Best Of Show Award, $300 SOLD
“A (n) Eye on You Too”. 22 x 22 framed. on exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, “Autonomous” Exhibition. Best of Show Award, April 2024 $350 SOLD
“Whirl of Perception” . 18 x 18 framed. on exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, “Autonomous” Exhibition. Best of Show Award, April 2024 $350
Autumn Embrace, 19” x 19” , $350
Holly Berries, 8” x 8 “ framed, handpainted fabric, acrylics, free motion stitching
“Summer Days” 8” x 8” framed, paper, handpainted fabric, acrylics, free motion stitching