Latest Exhibitions

Just delivered work to the gallery in West Haven where they will exhibit my current body of work painted over the last year and a half. It feels good to see the work together in a space other than my studio. Here is the announcement for the show.

Also on view is an exhibition of my sketchbook drawings up at Willamette University in Oregon. The title of the exhibition is "The Hand that Finds, the Hand that Feeds, the Hand that Fails". The curator of the exhibition, a long time friend and colleague of mine from Sacramento, has written an intriguing statement about the artistic process and the work in the exhibition. You can read that Here. It is nice and a little frightening to see the studio depleted of paintings.

Freddie's Lives!

Dad and Van with Van's new jacket, Dad's old fast pitch baseball team jacket. Freddie's Fast Pitch was the nickname. Some fun stories about that mid-eighties team Dad was on in the mid 80's in Madison, WI. I'll let Dad tell them in person! But as the axiom everything old is new, Van loved Dad's old jacket, relegated to our attic closet. Freddie's lives on, baby!

Van is good at nicknames. I'm "little sister." Dad is "fast pitch" and Van is "slow pitch." Debra is the only one who can call me Neve or Nevsky. Dad still uses "J Brown" from Grandpa Maurice. Any nicknames out there, family?

New Piece

Things have been going well for me this year. It's been good to be home after Europe. I'm trying to finish a few paintings for a show that opens in September. This is the latest painting on the easel. "Light is the Lion that Comes Down to Drink" Oil on Canvas. the title is from a Wallace Stevens poem, "the glass of water".

The University has commissioned me to do a mural for their new student commons. It will be 6'x18' and will be the most money I've made from a single painting. I will be working on it all of the academic year and into next summer. The proposal was based on Raphael's School of Athens, which I had the opportunity to present to students on the study abroad trip in Rome.