I was an Fine Art major at California State University, Fresno between 1968 and 1974. At that time the university was a center of growth for the women's art movement. Judy Chicago and many other women artists were living and teaching in Fresno. They were all a major influence on me and many other young women in the art department.
In 1974 a group of us opened Gallery 25, one of the first women's cooperative art galleries in the country. I participated in many group shows there and had a solo show at the gallery before I moved to Los Angeles to work on my master's degree.
I transferred to California State University, Los Angeles in 1976. At that time I began to develop abstract body imagery from the drawings comparing humans and cattle I had been doing in Fresno.
In the 1980’s I felt a need to reach a deeper understanding of the essential concepts I was trying to express in my artwork. I eliminated color to concentrate on form and produced a series of black and white drawings that can be interpreted as landscape or body-scape.
In 1990 I took my first trip to Sedona, Arizona. I was energized and inspired to return to full color drawings and build on what I had learned with the black and white drawings. It was also the beginning of an acceleration in personal growth and development. As my notions about the nature of reality have broadened, my art has became more concerned with universal themes.
In 1991 I joined LA Art, a membership gallery with several locations, and began showing my work regularly in Los Angeles. This gallery affiliation lead to others and an acceleration of my art career in Los Angeles. I am currently a member of Gallery 825/ LAAA, and Long Beach Arts. I have been included in many juried exhibitions over the past several years and have mounted two solo shows in Los Angeles. I am also involved in professional organizations, the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art and the Arroyo Arts Collective. Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to pursue installation work. It has grown into a new area of artistic endeavor for me. Victoria Taylor Alvarez, another Los Angeles artist, and I, have been creating mandalas and sacred space installations in Southern California since 1998.
My current work is abstract drawings and paintings that are inspired by my exploration of the creative energy matrix that is all around us. I am influenced by quantum physics theories and metaphysical principles. I intend to create artworks that open the viewer’s mind and emotions up to new possibilities and perspectives on creation. The concepts behind my work continue to deepen as my understanding of myself and reality continue to unfold.
